Kellsey
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kellsey has been given to 439 babies in the U.S. since 1985. 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 1993, with 38 recorded.
Babies named Kellsey, 2017
1 in 715,000
Kellsey 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kellsey?
Kellsey had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2017
- 1 in 715,000
- 5 of 3,577,106 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 345,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2017
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 495,893 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kellsey sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kellsey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kellseys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kellsey was born before 1995 — so the typical Kellsey is around 30 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 53.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 71.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 439
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 53.8% of all recorded uses (236).
Is Kellsey 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1993 (38)
- Years since peak
- 32
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.0% average annual change
Spellings of Kellsey
Kellsey is not the most common spelling — Kelly is, with 62.1% against Kellsey's 0.06%.
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 Kellsey is used
Across 1910–2025, Kellsey was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,046,820 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 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. Kellsey has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kellsey around the world
Where Kellsey 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 & Wales2001–2001#3,998in 2001
- South Australia2000–2000#727in 2000
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.
Kellsey by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kellsey
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kellsey
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.