Kaileen
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- kay-LEEN
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #4,264 for girls
Kaileen is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,264th for girls in the US (33 babies).
What does Kaileen mean?
Modern: variant of Kayleen (Kay + -leen)
Formed like Kathleen and Eileen, with the Irish-style -leen ending added to Kay.
Is Kaileen a girl's or a boy's name?
Kaileen is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 33 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kaileen in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,264th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 33 about 1 in 49,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 391% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 33 girls in the US were named Kaileen, making it the 4,264th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 83 girls. It first appears in the records in 1976.
Half of all the girls named Kaileen in the US since 1880 were born between 1996 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 145 girls in the US were given Kaileen or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,301, up from #4,264 for this spelling alone.
Kaileen in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #4,264 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,018 |
| 2023 | 54 | #3,047 |
| 2022 | 83 | #2,253 |
| 2021 | 46 | #3,389 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 10 | #9,939 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,795 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,027 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,628 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,205 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,380 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,808 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,431 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,729 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,708 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,261 |
| 2004 | 26 | #4,945 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,294 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,039 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,717 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,574 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,713 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,489 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,622 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,301 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,212 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,516 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,665 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,521 |
| 1991 | 12 | #6,969 |
| 1990 | 12 | #6,861 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,280 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,060 |
| 1987 | 12 | #5,918 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,745 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,029 |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,310 |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,599 |
Nicknames for Kaileen
- Kai 816 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Kaileen
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Teagan, Brynn, Kayden, Braelynn, Brynlee, Keegan, Devyn, Kaitlyn, Keiry, Cassidy, Brooklyn, Kaylynn
Other spellings of Kaileen
Names related to Kaileen
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya, Oaklynn
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Kaileen: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kaileen, updated 20 October 2026.