Name meaning & stats
Kayley
Kayley means “slender (debated)”. 8,586 US babies since 1940, peak 1999.
What it means
“slender (debated)”
Form of Kaylee
In US birth records
Peak year: 1999
8,586 US babies were named Kayley between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Kayley (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
1 in 10 Kaileys spell it Kayley
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1999)