Kaislee
Feminine
Kaislee is built rather than inherited, and it is worth saying plainly which parts are real. The -lee at the end is Old English leah, a clearing in woodland — the same element that closes a thousand English place-names and the surnames taken from them. The Kais- in front of it is new.
How old is the name Kaislee?
Kaislee first appears in US birth records in 2011 — 14 years ago. The typical Kaislee is a kid of about 5 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Kaislee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kaislee most popular?
Kaislee peaked in 2019, reaching #2561 nationally. Today it ranks #2719, 158 places below that high. See the whole 2019 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Kaislee
Our story of Kaislee is a story about a suffix. Leah meant a clearing — a patch of open ground where the trees had been taken out — and because settlements happen in clearings, half the villages in England ended up with it in their names, and then half the families in those villages carried it as a surname. It crossed to America as -ley, softened to -lee and -leigh, and became something new: not a place any more but an ending, a way of finishing a name so that it sounds like it belongs. Kaislee is made with that ending. Its opening is invention and its closing is a thousand years old, and both of those things are true at once.
Meaningnot established
Not established
There is no documented etymology for Kaislee as a whole. The ending is genuine: -lee and -leigh both come from Old English leah, 'woodland clearing', by way of place-names like Ashley and Bradley and the surnames made from them. The opening syllable corresponds to no recorded element; it belongs to the current family of Kai-, Kais- and Kins- openings — Kinsley, Ainsley, Paisley, Kaisley — that American naming has been assembling for a generation.
Pronouncing Kaislee
KAYZ-lee
Two syllables, stress on the first. The s is voiced by most speakers — KAYZ rather than KAYSS — but the name is new enough that the family's saying is what settles it.
Nicknames for Kaislee
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2011
- Most girls named
- 201968 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2561reached in 2019
- Change vs 2024
- +34.0%63 in 2025, from 47
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Kaislee in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Louisiana, Texas, Alabama.
Kaislees among us
people named Kaislee are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 25,512 born in 2025 was named Kaislee
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kaislee
- #2719
- Kaislee on the 2025 chart
- #849
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kaislee went to 63 girls in 2025, but Kayzlee, Kaizlee and Kayslee are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 111, which makes it the 849th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,870 places above the chart.
- Kaislee63
- Kayzlee20
- Kaizlee17
- Kayslee11
About 1 girl in 14,480 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 25,512 for Kaislee itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Roslynn test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kaislee's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Roslynn climbed just as high around 1957, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Roslynn's path sketches the road Kaislee is walking now.
Kaislee sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Kaislee is headed
Kaislee should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Kaislee beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kaislee in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Simple sounds throughout; English speakers say it correctly on sight.
- Kai and Lee are both ready short forms and both are established names.
- The -lee ending places it in a very large and familiar family, so it never sounds foreign.
- Nothing about the first half is documented, so any meaning offered for the whole name is invented.
- Kaislee, Kaisley, Kayslee and Kaislie are all plausible spellings of one sound.
- It sits very close to Kinsley, Paisley and Ainsley and will be misheard as all three.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kaislees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Kaislee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kaislee?
- Kaislee is the most-used spelling in US records — 63 of the 111 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Kayzlee, Kaizlee and Kayslee.
- How popular is the name Kaislee in 2025?
- Kaislee ranks #2719 among US girl names in 2025, with 63 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kaislee?
- About 1 in every 25,512 US girls born in 2025 was named Kaislee — 63 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kaislee with classmates?
- Kaislee will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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