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Kaycie vs Kaylee

American parents have registered 140,601 Kaylees since 1880, against 2,467 Kaycies. Kaylee is still ahead, with 1,205 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kaycie against Kaylee, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kaycie Kaylee

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

Of the 67 years in which either name was published, Kaylee for 66 years and Kaycie for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Kaycie Kaylee
Total US births 2,467140,601
Most in one year 867,225
Babies in 2025 371,205
Estimated living today 2,400139,000
Median age today 2418
Peak year 20002009
Best rank 1,952nd girls26th girls
Rank in 2025 4,352nd255th
First recorded 19651943
Girls / boys 2,462 / 5140,425 / 176

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 Kaycies alive today are over 24; half the Kaylees are over 18. That is 6 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Kaycie Kaylee
England and Wales 3281,231
France 240745
Scotland 31193

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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