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The first name 
Kaylie

Kaylie is a first name for girls.

Kaylie is a common name for girls!

The name Kaylie isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Kaylie ranks 602. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Kaylie. In the entire USA, approximately 19,955 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Kaylie. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Kaylie

What does the name 
Kaylie mean?

Kaylie is a variant of Kaylee, a name of modern origin, and a combination of the names Kay and Lee. In Irish, Kay stands for “pure” from the Gaelic name Caitlin, in English Kay means “keeper of the keys”. Lee is of Old English origin and means “clearing” or “meadow.

You can find... many names of modern origin, that have no traditional meaning or are surnames that have only recently been used as first names. Some examples are Nevaeh, Ashton, Bryson, and Mason.

Kaylie -
keeping with the times

Kaylie is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Kaylie cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #268 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2006. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Kaylie, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Kaylie seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Kaylie was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Kaylie in 2022 – for some parents the most beautiful name in the world

206 babies were named Kaylie in 2022 - that's 1 in 719,572 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Kaylie ranked 1,058 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.

Kaylie has 6 letters 
and begins with a K

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 7.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A, S and M are more common for girls' names.

With six letters, the name Kaylie is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that if 7.5% of all girls' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the girls' names that begin with a K, Karen is the most common.

Other names with 
K, a, y, l, i and e

If you take all the letters in the name Kaylie – K, a, y, l, i and e – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Kaylei or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Kaylie

If your name is Kaylie and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Kaylie

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Kaylie, you can simply say:

Koala

Apple

Yoyo

Lion

Igloo

Elephant

This is how the name Kaylie is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Kaylie in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Kaylie

Kaylie

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Kaylie

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Kaylie is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

K
A
Y
L
I
E

Have you ever waved the name Kaylie

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

K
A
Y
L
I
E

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Kaylie sounds like this: