Kiley is a variant of Kylie, a name that arose in Australia, where it is said to mean “boomerang” in the Australian Aboriginal language Nyungar.
Kiley is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Kiley 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, Kiley ranks 935. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Kiley. In the entire USA, approximately 16,837 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Kiley. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Kiley is a variant of Kylie, a name that arose in Australia, where it is said to mean “boomerang” in the Australian Aboriginal language Nyungar.
Kiley was originally a masculine variant.... but quickly became much more popular for girls.
Kiley is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Kiley cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #289 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2008. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Kiley, 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, Kiley 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 Kiley was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
68 babies were named Kiley in 2022 - that's 1 in 2,179,881 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Kiley ranked 2,302 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
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 five letters, the name Kiley is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. 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.
If your name is Kiley 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Kiley, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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.
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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. Kiley sounds like this:
