Kalei
Kalei is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 25 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 250.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 2003142 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1980
- 2,200people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,935 girls have been named Kalei in the United States since 1980, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2003, with 142 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2004, and the 2000s alone account for 47%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 265 boys have also been given it, 12% of the total.
By decade
In 2003, its biggest year
Kalei was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2003 were Emily, Emma, Madison, Hannah and Olivia. See all of 2003.
Names that rose and fell with Kalei
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Timiapeak 2000
- Madisonpeak 2001
- Simranpeak 2001
- Cyanpeak 1998
- Angelespeak 2003
- Ajahpeak 1999
- Haileepeak 2003
- Leslypeak 2003
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.