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Kaylee vs Kaymere

American parents have registered 140,601 Kaylees since 1880, against 14 Kaymeres. Kaylee is still ahead, with 1,205 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kaylee Kaymere

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

Kaylee has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1943 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2022, when Kaylee had 1,822 and Kaymere had 14.

Side by side

  Kaylee Kaymere
Total US births 140,60114
Most in one year 7,22514
Babies in 2025 1,205under 5
Estimated living today 139,00014
Median age today 183
Peak year 20092022
Best rank 26th girls6,147th boys
Rank in 2025 255thunranked
First recorded 19432022
Girls / boys 140,425 / 1760 / 14

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 Kaylees alive today are over 18; half the Kaymeres are over 3. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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