Kayley
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Polynesian: prophet; also glossed as plant with cinnamon
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kayley is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 43K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 95K
- DKDenmark1 in 838K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 66 (measured from records)
- 1 in 43K (inferred from the name graph)
7,696 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Polynesian: prophet; also glossed as plant with cinnamon.
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kayley counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 7,696 | 1 in 43K | 7.7K | Kayley | 66 |
| NL Netherlands | 182 | 1 in 95K | 182 | — | 4 |
| DK Denmark | 7 | 1 in 838K | 7 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 7 | 1 in 1.5M | 7 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | 1 |
7,696 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kayley is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kaylee.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Irish and English: of recent origin and uncertain derivation. Kayley is an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Caollaidhe ‘descendant of Caolladhe’ , an old male personal name derived from the element caol slender. Its adoption as a modern given name has probably also been influenced by the popularity of the names KELLY and KYLIE . Variants: Kayly, Kaley, Ka(y)leigh .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kayley Chungb. 1985CNHong Kong artist
- Kayley Carriganb. 1994PHFilipino stuntwoman and action actress (born 1994)
- Kayley Gunnerb. 1997USAmerican pornographic actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7.7K | #2,938 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 182 | #3,822 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 160 | #6,178 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 45 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 15 | #2,938 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 7 | #40,222 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 7 | #10,544 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #23,028 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 2 | #23,029 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #98,478 |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Kayley?
- In the etymology graph, Karen, Catherine and Kathy are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Kathryn and Kay.
- What does the name Kayley mean, and where does it come from?
- Polynesian: prophet; also glossed as plant with cinnamon. Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- In which country does Kayley have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.7 thousand people named Kayley, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kayley.
- Where is Kayley most common?
- Kayley is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 43 thousand people carrying it.
- Is Kayley a male or female name?
- Kayley is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Kayley?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,696 people named Kayley in 2020, about 1 in 43 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kayleyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kayley”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.