Kaley

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Kaley: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Kaley: Recorded since 1994, it reached #432 in 2017, and it stood at #4,709 in 2023.

3registrars recorded it
26times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#432highest recorded position

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2023

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2350
1997	#3174
1998	#3142
1999	#3225
2000	#2746
2001	#2783
2002	#2868
2003	#1996
2004	#2802
2005	#4798
2006	#3548
2007	#4294
2008	#3397
2009	#4564
2010	#4688
2011	#4764
2013	#5742
2014	#3514
2015	#4103
2016	#5785
2017	#5765
2023	#4709

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 22 of the 28 years from 1996 to 2023.

In 2017: #432 among girls in Northern Ireland, #5765 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1994–2023 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

Popularity journey

First recorded1994
First recorded at #502 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1994 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2023
Most recently recorded at #4709 among girls in England and Wales, in 2023.
England and Wales · Girls

Kaley appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 22 ranked years and 102 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1994.

Kaley across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Kaley's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#2350 (1996)	#1996 (2003)	#4709 (2023)	22 of 28	102 (1996–2023)	9 (2003)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#502 (1994)	#502 (1994)	#751 (2015)	3 of 22	10 (1994–2015)	4 (2015)

Kaley by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Kaley in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	18	4 of 10	5
2000sbusiest	52	10 of 10	5
2010s	28	7 of 10	4
2020s	4	1 of 10	4

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 5 births a year.

See the names England and Wales has recorded the most births with →

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1994 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #432 in Northern Ireland in 2017.

Kaley's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2023	England and Wales	female	#4709	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4103	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#3514	6	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4764	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4688	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3397	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3548	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2802	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1996	9	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2868	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2783	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2746	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3225	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2350	6	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#432	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#751	4	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#606	3	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	female	#502	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Kaley is officially recorded

3 official registrars have recorded Kaley, between 1994 and 2023, in 23 of those 30 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Each mark is a year the registrar recorded the name; the diamond is that registrar's highest position. Gaps can mean a year was not published, not that the name went unused.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Republic of Ireland	1994–2015	3	#502 in 1994
England and Wales	1996–2023	22	#1996 in 2003
Northern Ireland	2017	1	#432 in 2017

Its high point came 23 years earlier in Republic of Ireland (1994) than in Northern Ireland (2017).

No registrar recorded it for 5 years after 2017; it appears again in 2023.

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1994 and 2023, ranked in 23 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #432, first reached in 2017.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 9 births, registered in England and Wales in 2003.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 5 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 23 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Kalem · #272, 25y
Kalen · #629, 30y
Kali · #223, 30y
Kalia · #2178, 19y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aleigha · #432, 26y
Layla-Rose · #432, 19y
Teodora · #432, 25y
Zosia · #432, 22y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Abram · #432, 18y
Aleigha · #432, 26y
Amarah · #432, 30y
Beatriz · #432, 29y

Kaley was ranked #432 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2017. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Abbey#432
Abi#432
Aibhlinn#432
Aideen#432

What is known about Kaley

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 3 official registrars, 1994–2023.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1994 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #432 in Northern Ireland in 2017. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Kaley

Kaley at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kaley across 2 official records

Kaley by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Popularity data

Where Kaley is officially recorded

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Kaley

What is known about Kaley

Kaley at a glance

Kaley across 2 official records

Kaley by decade in England and Wales · Girls

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Kaley