Kaleesi
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ka-LEE-see
- Origin
- Modern
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #4,877 for girls
Kaleesi is a girls' name of Modern origin, meaning “queen, in the invented Dothraki language”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies) and 4,877th for girls in the US (27 babies).
What does Kaleesi mean?
Modern: spelling of Khaleesi; invented word from Game of Thrones
“queen, in the invented Dothraki language”
A title, not a name, in Game of Thrones: the Dothraki word for the wife of a khal, borne by Daenerys Targaryen.
Meaning borrowed from Khaleesi. More on Wiktionary.
Is Kaleesi a girl's or a boy's name?
Kaleesi is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK and 27 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kaleesi in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,990th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Kaleesi, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2013, with 8 girls.
In 2025, 24 girls in the UK were given Kaleesi or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,199, up from #5,990 for this spelling alone.
- Khaleesi 21
- Kaleesi 3
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Kaleesi in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 1 | #7,536 |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 7 | #3,389 |
| 2015 | 5 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
| 2013 | 8 | #3,060 |
| 2012 | 4 | #5,058 |
How popular is Kaleesi in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,877th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 27 about 1 in 60,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady much the same
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 27 girls in the US were named Kaleesi, making it the 4,877th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,846th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 39 girls. It first appears in the records in 2011.
Half of all the girls named Kaleesi in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 534 girls in the US were given Kaleesi or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #559, up from #4,877 for this spelling alone.
Kaleesi in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,877 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,890 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,404 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,224 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,019 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,846 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,652 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,450 |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,920 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,849 |
| 2015 | 30 | #4,583 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,846 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,484 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,705 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,339 |
Names like Kaleesi
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kehlani, Liyana, Indie, Ayra, Fiadh, Maeva, Elodie, Khadija, Nevaeh, Nusaybah, Inaya, Imogen
Other spellings of Kaleesi
Names related to Kaleesi
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Jax, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya, Oaklynn, Ailani, Kayson
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Kaleesi: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kaleesi, updated 20 October 2026.