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Kaycie vs Kaylie

American parents have registered 22,101 Kaylies since 1880, against 2,467 Kaycies. Kaylie is still ahead, with 148 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kaycie against Kaylie, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kaycie Kaylie

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 56 years in which either name was published, Kaylie for 45 years and Kaycie for 11 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Kaycie Kaylie
Total US births 2,46722,101
Most in one year 861,195
Babies in 2025 37148
Estimated living today 2,40022,000
Median age today 2419
Peak year 20002006
Best rank 1,952nd girls281st girls
Rank in 2025 4,352nd1,452nd
First recorded 19651968
Girls / boys 2,462 / 522,101 / 0

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 Kaylies are over 19. That is 5 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 Kaylie
France 240865
England and Wales 328247
Scotland 3131

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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Related comparisons

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