Kelsei
#12,543 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kelsei has been given to 337 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #12,543 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 19 recorded.
Babies named Kelsei, 2025
1 in 474,000
Kelsei 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kelsei?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 230,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #12,543
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kelsei sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kelsei. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kelseis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kelsei was born before 2003 — so the typical Kelsei is around 22 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 34.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 59.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 337
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 34.7% of all recorded uses (117).
Is Kelsei 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
- +273
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,849
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.54×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 36.8%
- Peak was 1996 (19)
- Years since peak
- 29
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.6% average annual change
Spellings of Kelsei
Kelsei is not the most common spelling — Kelsey is, with 44.6% against Kelsei'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.
Kelsei around the world
Where Kelsei 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 & Wales2009–2009#5,556in 2009
- South Australia1993–2011#840in 2011
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.
Kelsei by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kelsei
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kelsei
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.