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Kelcy

#16,120 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Ship + victory, through Kelsey

Kelcy has been given to 1,044 babies in the U.S. since 1962. In 2025 it ranked #16,120 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 61 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% girls, 7% boys all-time.

Babies named Kelcy, 2025

1 in 663,000

Kelcy over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Kelcy over time

In 2025, Kelcy went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19302025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Kelcy: meaning, origin, and history

Ship + victory, through Kelsey

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kelcy means

Kelcy belongs to the name family reached through Kelcy → Kelsey. Its meaning is “ship + victory”.

Origin, language, and formation

Kelcy is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kelsey.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 967 girls were recorded with the name Kelcy between 1962 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 61 in 1993; its best national rank was #2,180 in 1993.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #13,747 in 2015 to #16,120 in 2025.

In the United States, 77 boys were recorded with the name Kelcy between 1930 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1985; its best national rank was #3,797 in 1937.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kelcy?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,120
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kelcy sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kelcy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kelcys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kelcy was born before 1994 — so the typical Kelcy is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
47.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
26.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
967
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 47.2% of all recorded uses (456).

Is Kelcy rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−3,324
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,373
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.2%
Peak was 1993 (61)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,180
1993

Spellings of Kelcy

Kelcy is not the most common spelling — Kelly is, with 50.1% against Kelcy's 0.10%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Kelcy is used

Across 1910–2025, Kelcy was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 569,902 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Missouri1 in —
  4. 4Ohio1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Kelcy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kelcy around the world

Where Kelcy ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2001–2010
    #5,707
    in 2010
  • France
    2004–2025
    #5,082
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1997–1997
    #681
    in 1997

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kelcy by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,120
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#2,180
1993
Peak year
1993
61 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
967
Count in 2025
5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,797
1937
Peak year
1985
9 that year
First recorded
1930
Last recorded
1993
All-time count
77
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kelcy

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Kelcy

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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