Kiely
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KEE-lee
- Origin
- Irish
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Kiely is a girls' name of Irish origin. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
Where does Kiely come from?
Irish: variant of Keeley or Kiley, Irish surnames
Is Kiely a girl's or a boy's name?
Kiely is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kiely in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #14,937among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Kiely, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,554th. Its busiest year was 2008, with 52 girls. It first appears in the records in 1969.
Half of all the girls named Kiely in the US since 1880 were born between 1995 and 2008, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 95 girls in the US were given Kiely or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,748, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.
Kiely in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,554 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,004 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,205 |
| 2013 | 8 | #11,964 |
| 2012 | 22 | #5,892 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,610 |
| 2010 | 22 | #5,975 |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,570 |
| 2008 | 52 | #3,221 |
| 2007 | 29 | #4,942 |
| 2006 | 28 | #4,952 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,263 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,058 |
| 2003 | 48 | #3,082 |
| 2002 | 42 | #3,279 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,413 |
| 2000 | 38 | #3,448 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,084 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,828 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,367 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,275 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,434 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,598 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,820 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,307 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,175 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,281 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,539 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,106 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,608 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,456 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,304 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,290 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,822 |
| 1982 | 14 | #4,943 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,108 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,788 |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,647 |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 0 | – |
| 1971 | 0 | – |
| 1970 | 0 | – |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,469 |
Names like Kiely
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Cassidy Kennedy Teagan Devyn Kaitlyn Keegan Reagan Mckenna Keiry Brynn Kenley Ashlyn
Other spellings of Kiely
Names related to Kiely
More Irish names
Oscar Rowan Rory Maeve Finn Aiden Ryan Nolan Quinn Orla Cody Erin Ronan Connor Declan Casey
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, “Kiely: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kiely, updated 20 October 2026.