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Kelsi

#3,947 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Kelsey

Kelsi has been given to 10,151 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #3,947 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 624 recorded.

Babies named Kelsi, 2025

1 in 89,600

Kelsi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kelsi: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Kelsey

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kelsi means

Kelsi is a variant of Kelsey.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Kelsi → Kelsey. The family’s meaning is “ship + victory”, recorded in English with the source elements cēol and siġe.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kelsey.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,151 girls were recorded with the name Kelsi between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 624 in 1991; its best national rank was #410 in 1991.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,483 in 2020 to #3,947 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,330 in 2015 to #3,947 in 2025.

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 Kelsi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 89,600
37 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 43,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,947
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
62,106 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kelsi 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 62,106 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kelsi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kelsis were born

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

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
49.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
10,151
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 49.8% of all recorded uses (5,054).

Is Kelsi 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
−690
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,464
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,617
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.46×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.9%
Peak was 1991 (624)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#410
1991

Spellings of Kelsi

Kelsi is not the most common spelling — Kelly is, with 39.8% against Kelsi's 0.85%.

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 Kelsi is used

Across 2016–2025, Kelsi was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 35,572 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

013 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 7,692
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 10,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in 14,286
  4. 4Alabama1 in 20,000
  5. 5Maryland1 in 20,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 25,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 25,000
  8. 8Indiana1 in 50,000

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.

Kelsi around the world

Where Kelsi 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
    1996–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1994–2020
    #636
    in 2020
  • Northern Ireland
    2013–2013
    #440
    in 2013
  • Ireland
    2008–2008
    #862
    in 2008
  • France
    2013–2013
    #6,619
    in 2013
  • Canada
    1991–2019
    #3,370
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1989–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA 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 Kelsi

People whose public names include Kelsi, 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.

Kelsi in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Kelsi. Linked forms have their own page here.

Kelsie

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Kelsi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,947
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,464
Best rank ever
#410
1991
Peak year
1991
624 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,151
Count in 2025
37

Names similar to Kelsi

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

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Names with a curve like Kelsi

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

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Sibling names for Kelsi

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

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