Kaylee

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Kaylee Given Name
Gender	female
Related names	Cailey, Caylee, Kailee, Kaileigh, Kailey, Kaley, Kayleigh, Kayley, Kayli, Kaylie
Wikipedia articles	All pages beginning with Kaylee

Kaylee is a given name, a combination of the names Kay and Lee. Kay is an English short form of the name Katherine, while Lee means "pasture" in English. Alternately it is sometimes considered as an Anglicized version of the Irish Gaelic céilidh, a type of social dance or party in Ireland and Scotland.

With the spelling Kaylee, the name was ranked as the 36th most popular name for girls born in the United States in 2007.^[1]

It may refer to:

• Kaylee DeFer (b. 1986), American actress
• Kaylee Frye, a character from the television series Firefly (2002-2003) and the movie Serenity (2005)

[edit] Popularity rank of name

Year	Kaylee	Kayleigh
	USA[2]		England and Wales[3]
2006	42	266
2005	40	266	97
2004	50	283	89
2003	53	289	86
2002	57	324	86
2001	66	322
2000	72	348
1999	69	362
1998	86	363
1997	107	382
1996	110	411
1995	127	431
1994	154	437
1993	167	402
1992	174	407
1991	197	390
1990	234	414
1989	273	407
1988	313	413
1987	386	414
1986	441	320
1985	727	792
1984	826

[edit] See also

• Céilidh (has a similar pronunciation)

[edit] References