Fun Facts About the Name Kailer
- 820 babies named Kailer: U.S. records list 820 babies given the name Kailer from 1880 through 2025. Even 42 girls received the name Kailer - about 1 girl for every 19 boys.
What Does the Name Kailer Mean?
Kailer is an English-language given name whose meaning is not securely established. It is most often understood as a respelling of Kyler, and if that link is accepted, the meaning carried over is "narrow" or "strait," from Scottish Gaelic caol, the element behind the Scottish name Kyle. That Gaelic derivation properly belongs to Kyle, and to Kyler only as a form of it; it is not independently attested for the spelling Kailer. A competing explanation treats Kyler as a surname of unclear origin used as a first name, which would leave Kailer with no settled meaning at all. The available references do not reconcile the two explanations.
Kailer Name History & Origins
Kailer appears in American use as a late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century spelling, part of a broad pattern of respelling familiar-sounding names by varying their vowels. It is usually compared with Kyler, a surname that came to be used as a first name in the English-speaking world, but the two spellings do not have a separately documented history, and nothing confirms that one produced the other. The name is familiar in the United States in part through the hockey player Kailer Yamamoto, whose career began in the 2010s; he illustrates the spelling's current use rather than its origin. Because Kailer is a respelling rather than a name with its own line of development through earlier languages, its history is largely that of the name it echoes, and that name's own origin remains unsettled.
How Popular is the Name Kailer?
Kailer has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2021. Its best rank was #2,568 in 2021.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #16,028 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2024 | #16,341 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2023 | #14,233 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2017 | #17,070 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2014 | #17,795 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2011 | #18,116 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2007 | #18,965 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2002 | #14,451 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #3,345 | 35 | 0.0020% |
| 2024 | #3,479 | 33 | 0.0019% |
| 2023 | #3,666 | 31 | 0.0018% |
| 2022 | #2,845 | 45 | 0.0026% |
| 2021 | #2,568 | 51 | 0.0029% |
| 2020 | #2,783 | 44 | 0.0026% |
| 2019 | #2,674 | 48 | 0.0027% |
| 2018 | #2,685 | 46 | 0.0025% |
| 2017 | #3,483 | 32 | 0.0017% |
| 2016 | #3,730 | 29 | 0.0015% |
| 2015 | #3,738 | 29 | 0.0015% |
| 2014 | #3,501 | 31 | 0.0016% |
| 2013 | #4,248 | 23 | 0.0012% |
| 2012 | #5,373 | 17 | 0.0009% |
| 2011 | #4,903 | 19 | 0.0010% |
| 2010 | #3,760 | 28 | 0.0015% |
| 2009 | #4,668 | 21 | 0.0011% |
| 2008 | #3,988 | 26 | 0.0013% |
| 2007 | #5,556 | 16 | 0.0008% |
| 2006 | #2,853 | 40 | 0.0019% |
| 2005 | #3,491 | 28 | 0.0014% |
| 2004 | #3,500 | 27 | 0.0014% |
| 2003 | #4,348 | 19 | 0.0010% |
| 2002 | #4,115 | 20 | 0.0010% |
| 2001 | #4,037 | 20 | 0.0010% |
| 2000 | #5,184 | 14 | 0.0007% |
| 1998 | #9,048 | 6 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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