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Kailey vs Kaiyzen

American parents have registered 27,254 Kaileys since 1880, against 87 Kaiyzens. Kailey is still ahead, with 153 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kailey against Kaiyzen, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kailey Kaiyzen

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

Kailey has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1970 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2022, when Kailey had 256 and Kaiyzen had 67.

Side by side

  Kailey Kaiyzen
Total US births 27,25487
Most in one year 1,44967
Babies in 2025 153under 5
Estimated living today 27,00090
Median age today 213
Peak year 20042022
Best rank 228th girls2,168th boys
Rank in 2025 1,417thunranked
First recorded 19702022
Girls / boys 27,244 / 100 / 87

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 Kaileys alive today are over 21; half the Kaiyzens are over 3. That is 18 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Kailey Kaiyzen
England and Wales 1463

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: Kailey and Kaiyzen.