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Kayelee
How to Pronounce Kayelee
Pronounced KAY-lee /ˈkeɪ.li/Medium
Meaning: Kayelee is a respelling of Kaylee/Kayleigh, a modern name that blends Kay - short for Katherine, 'pure' - with the -lee ending, or draws on the Irish ceilidh. The extra e in Kayelee simply stretches the spelling; the name is pronounced the same as Kaylee.Low
Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
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History & Origin
Kayelee is a variant spelling of Kaylee and Kayleigh, modern names blending Kay - a short form of Katherine, 'pure' - with a -lee ending, and echoing the Irish ceilidh. As Kaylee soared in popularity, dozens of spellings bloomed alongside it. Kayelee appears in United States records from around 1990 and reached its small high in the mid-two-thousands. It was never common, given to only a couple dozen girls a year.
A girl named Kayelee from that peak would be a teenager or young adult now. The name reads as a nineteen-nineties-and-two-thousands invention; the simpler Kaylee spelling won out, and Kayelee stays rare.
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What does the name Kayelee mean?
It is a spelling variant of Kaylee, a modern blend of Kay (from Katherine, 'pure') and the -lee ending.
How do you pronounce Kayelee?
It's said KAY-lee /ˈkeɪ.li/, two syllables, stress on the first.
Is Kayelee a boy or girl name?
Kayelee is used as a girl's name.
How popular is Kayelee?
It has always been rare in this spelling, given to only a couple dozen girls a year at its peak.