Kaelea
Kaelea is a name with a single cultural origin: English.
- English
Meaning & Origin of Kaelea
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Kaelea is a name with a single cultural origin: English.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Kaelea
Kaelea first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1991, with 8 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1999: 13 births, good for #7,239 nationwide. About 54% of every Kaelea on record arrived during the 1990s, its defining decade. Kaelea last appeared in the published SSA data in 2011, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 104 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1990s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Kaelea
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About the name Kaelea
Kaelea is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1991 and has accumulated 104 births in the dataset. Kaelea's peak popularity came in 1999 when it ranked #7,239. Use the chart and map above to compare Kaelea's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.