Kalei
About 2,224 American babies have been named Kalei since 1973, most of them around 2003. In 2025 it ranked 8,362nd. About 2,200 Kaleis are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 21.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Kalei boys named Kalei
Girls and boys called Kalei
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Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 1,948 girls and 276 boys in all, and in 2024 the split was 25 to 7.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 32 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,224
- Estimated living today
- 2,200
- Median age today
- 21
- Peak year
- 2003
- Best rank
- 1,395th
- Rank in 2025
- 8,362nd
- First recorded
- 1973
- Girls / boys
- 1,948 / 276
How old the living Kaleis are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,224 babies given the name since 1973, about 2,200 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 800 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Kalei is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Kalei is most concentrated in Hawaii (26.7×), California (3.6×), Texas (2.4×), Florida (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2003
The most popular girls’ names the year Kalei peaked:
Related names
Kalei against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.