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Kaley vs Kaloni

American parents have registered 13,707 Kaleys since 1880, against 696 Kalonis. Kaley is still ahead, with 38 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kaley against Kaloni, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kaley Kaloni

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Kaley has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1967 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Kaley had 38 and Kaloni had 35.

Side by side

  Kaley Kaloni
Total US births 13,707696
Most in one year 57860
Babies in 2025 3835
Estimated living today 13,000690
Median age today 257
Peak year 20032022
Best rank 495th girls2,821st girls
Rank in 2025 3,832nd4,067th
First recorded 19671988
Girls / boys 13,682 / 25679 / 17

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Kaleys alive today are over 25; half the Kalonis are over 7. That is 18 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kaley and Kaloni.