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Kaylea

#7,885 in the US in 2025

Where Kaylea stands

United States register · 1880–2025

#7,885girls’ names · US 2025

Kaylea was the 7,885th most registered girls' name in the United States in 2025, on 13 births.

peak 1999 · 158BELOW THE 5-BIRTH FLOOR — NOT PUBLISHED188019532025

Its moment was 1999, when 158 babies were given it.

SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

#7,885US rank, 2025 (girls)
13US births in 2025
#1,206its best US rank, in 1999
1999peak year — 158 births
3,107US births since 1978
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How Kaylea's figures are worked out

  1. Counts come straight from the registrars: the US Social Security Administration (1880–2025) and the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (1900–2025). Nothing is scraped from another names site. The SSA files are the agency's own, retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified.
  2. Ranks are computed against every name in that year's file, not just the ones this site publishes pages for — otherwise a rank would flatter every name we happen to list.
  3. The curve is drawn on births per 100,000 of that sex, not raw counts. Raw counts across eras are misleading: far more births were registered in 1957 than in 1890, so a flat count is a falling share.
  4. The reporting floor. Each registrar publishes a name only once it clears a threshold — 5 births of that sex in the US, 10 in New Zealand. Expressed as a share that threshold is itself a curve, and it is drawn on every chart here as the shaded band along the base.
  5. A missing year is a suppressed value, never a zero. Where the registrar published nothing, this site prints “below floor” or “<5”, the curve is broken rather than drawn across the gap, and the missing years are marked on the floor line. Kaylea was under the floor in no year of its US record.
share per 100,000 = births ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000
reporting floor (share) = 5 ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000

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Kaylea in the United States

18801900192019401960198020002020NOT PUBLISHED — BELOW THE 5-BIRTH FLOOR0.04.58.9
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 5-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Kaylea in the United States, 1880–2025

Between 2016 and 2025 the name has been falling — down 54% as a share of girls' births.

SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Kaylea in New Zealand

Kaylea never reached 10 births in a single year in New Zealand, so it does not appear in the DIA file. That is a reporting floor, not a zero — the name may still have been registered here, just never ten times in one year.

SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Kaylea in England & Wales

Kaylea does not appear in the ONS list for England and Wales. That means it was given to fewer than 3 babies in every year from 2019 to 2025 — not that it is unused there. ONS publishes only those seven years, so a name that had its moment in England before 2019 is invisible here however common it once was.

SOURCE·Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales·Open Government Licence v3.0. ONS redacts any name given to 2 or fewer babies of that sex that year, under s40 of the Freedom of Information Act.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Decade by decade in the US

US rank and births at each decade markSSA · JUL 2026
YearRankBirths
1980#9,0956
1990#1,92372
2000#1,291149
2010#2,51473
2020#7,55914

<5 = the SSA published no figure for that year. It is a suppressed value, not a zero.

Where in the United States

The states that registered Kaylea most often since 1978. These are lifetime totals, so they track state population as much as local taste — a name common in Wyoming will never out-count California.

Questions about Kaylea

How popular is the name Kaylea?

Kaylea ranked #7,885 for girls in the United States in 2025, on 13 births registered with the Social Security Administration.

When was Kaylea most popular?

Kaylea peaked in 1999, when 158 babies in the United States were given the name.

Is Kaylea rising or falling?

Measured as a share of all girls' births, Kaylea has been falling between 2016 and 2025 (-54%).

Same sex, peaking within a few years of 1999, at a comparable scale. Not a taste engine — this is arithmetic on peak years, which is why it will occasionally hand you something unfashionable that is nonetheless exactly of the period.

SOURCE·US SSA (1880–2025) + NZ DIA (1900–2025) birth registrations·ranks and shares computed from the source files, see method·REVIEWED JUL 2026

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