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Kelsea

#3,868 in 2025Girls' name

Ship + victory, through Kelsey

Kelsea has been given to 6,040 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #3,868 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1992, with 457 recorded.

Babies named Kelsea, 2025

1 in 87,200

Kelsea over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kelsea: meaning, origin, and history

Ship + victory, through Kelsey

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kelsea means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Kelsea is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kelsey.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,035 girls were recorded with the name Kelsea between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 457 in 1992; its best national rank was #521 in 1992.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,407 in 2020 to #3,868 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,412 in 2015 to #3,868 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Kelsea between 1989 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1989; its best national rank was #8,593 in 1989.

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 Kelsea?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 87,200
38 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 42,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,868
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
60,472 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kelsea 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 60,472 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kelsea. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kelseas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kelsea was born before 1996 — so the typical Kelsea is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
55.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
32.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
6,035
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 55.0% of all recorded uses (3,322).

Is Kelsea 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
+60
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,461
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−456
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.81×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.3%
Peak was 1992 (457)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#521
1992

Spellings of Kelsea

Kelsea is not the most common spelling — Chelsea is, with 33.2% against Kelsea's 1.2%.

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 Kelsea is used

Across 2016–2025, Kelsea was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 34,785 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

14 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 25,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 25,000
  3. 3New York1 in 25,000
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 33,333
  5. 5Virginia1 in 33,333
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 50,000
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  8. 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.

Kelsea around the world

Where Kelsea 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
    1996–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024
  • Scotland
    1994–2003
    #667
    in 2003
  • Ireland
    1998–1998
    #425
    in 1998
  • France
    2018–2022
    #5,457
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1989–2012
    #563
    in 2012

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

Notable people named Kelsea

People whose public names include Kelsea, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Kelsea by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,868
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,461
Best rank ever
#521
1992
Peak year
1992
457 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,035
Count in 2025
38

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,593
1989
Peak year
1989
5 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kelsea

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

KelcieKellynKelsieKelaniKelsiKelsyKelisKellenKelciKelleeKeliKelleyKelceeKelbyKellieKellyeKeliseKelceyKellanKelseeKeliaKellerKelcyKelsei

Names with a curve like Kelsea

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kelsea, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ShelbiHaliShelbieKelcieKatlinDevanAlexandreaKelciJalisaKhadijahSymoneCady

Sibling names for Kelsea

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

Explore around Kelsea

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