Kellye
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kellye has been given to 2,347 babies in the U.S. since 1955. 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 1987, with 145 recorded.
Babies named Kellye, 2001
1 in 468,000
Kellye 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kellye?
Kellye had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2001
- 1 in 468,000
- 8 of 3,742,181 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 225,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2001
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 324,236 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kellye sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2001 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 324,236 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kellye. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kellyes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kellye was born before 1973 — so the typical Kellye is around 52 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 34.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 42.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,347
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 34.5% of all recorded uses (810).
Is Kellye 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 1987 (145)
- Years since peak
- 38
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 37.5% average annual change
Spellings of Kellye
Kellye is not the most common spelling — Kelly is, with 44.5% against Kellye's 0.22%.
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 Kellye is used
Across 1910–2025, Kellye was most concentrated in Tennessee — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 74,352 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 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. Kellye has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kellye around the world
Where Kellye 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.
- South Australia1979–1983#686in 1983
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kellye by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kellye
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Kellye
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kellye, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Kellye
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.