Baby name
FADING
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇦🇺 Kaylee
/KAY · lee/
Meaning
“Modern American coinage”
Modern American coinage, likely a blend of Kay and Lee or a phonetic variant of Caileigh; part of the late 1990s and 2000s -lee name wave.
Nicknames
kay
Vibe
strong
How it ages.
Peak 2000s America; likely to feel dated within a decade, not yet fully retro.
The cultural moment.
Top 50 in the United States from roughly 2000 to 2015; declining since.