Kelle
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kelle has been given to 2,345 babies in the U.S. since 1950. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1962, with 100 recorded.
Babies named Kelle, 2003
1 in 760,000
Kelle over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kelle?
Kelle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2003, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2003
- 1 in 760,000
- 5 of 3,801,425 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 365,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2003
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 526,991 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kelle sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2003 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 526,991 children born in 2003 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kelle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kelles were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kelle was born before 1970 — so the typical Kelle is around 55 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 38.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 27.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,302
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 38.9% of all recorded uses (895).
Is Kelle 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1962 (100)
- Years since peak
- 63
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.8% average annual change
Spellings of Kelle
Kelle is not the most common spelling — Kelly is, with 19.1% against Kelle's 0.09%.
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 Kelle is used
Across 1910–2025, Kelle was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 147,870 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2Indiana1 in 100,000
- 3Michigan1 in 100,000
- 4Missouri1 in 100,000
- 5Ohio1 in 100,000
- 6Oklahoma1 in 100,000
- 7Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
- 8Texas1 in 100,000
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. Kelle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kelle around the world
Where Kelle 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 & Wales1996–1996#3,795in 1996
- South Australia1958–1981#452in 1981
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kelle by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Kelle
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Kelle
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kelle, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Kelle
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.