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Kelsy

#6,979 in 2025Girls' name

Ship + victory, through Kelsey

Kelsy has been given to 3,270 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #6,979 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1992, with 163 recorded.

Babies named Kelsy, 2025

1 in 207,000

Kelsy over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kelsy: meaning, origin, and history

Ship + victory, through Kelsey

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kelsy means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Kelsy is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kelsey.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,231 girls were recorded with the name Kelsy between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 163 in 1992; its best national rank was #1,102 in 1992.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,490 in 2020 to #6,979 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,378 in 2015 to #6,979 in 2025.

In the United States, 39 boys were recorded with the name Kelsy between 1976 and 1999. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1979; its best national rank was #4,638 in 1979.

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 Kelsy?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,979
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kelsy 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kelsy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kelsys were born

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

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
44.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
32.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,231
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 44.9% of all recorded uses (1,451).

Is Kelsy 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
−1,450
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−489
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,601
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.64×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.8%
Peak was 1992 (163)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,102
1992

Spellings of Kelsy

Kelsy is not the most common spelling — Kelly is, with 45.3% against Kelsy's 0.31%.

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 Kelsy is used

Across 1910–2025, Kelsy was most concentrated in Washington — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 98,065 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Washington1 in 25,000
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 50,000
  4. 4Missouri1 in 50,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 50,000
  6. 6Arizona1 in 100,000
  7. 7Colorado1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 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. Kelsy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kelsy around the world

Where Kelsy 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
    1997–2017
    #5,765
    in 2017
  • Scotland
    1991–2008
    #793
    in 2008
  • France
    1999–2025
    #1,414
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1992–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kelsy by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,979
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 489
Best rank ever
#1,102
1992
Peak year
1992
163 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,231
Count in 2025
16

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,638
1979
Peak year
1979
8 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
1999
All-time count
39
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kelsy

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

KelisKelciKelbyKelcieKeliKeliaKelsiKelcyKellynKelseaKelaniKelleKellenChelsyKelleeKelceeKellyeKeliseKelbiKelceyKelsieElsyKellanKelsee

Names with a curve like Kelsy

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

KelcieKaleeTiarraBrieannaAerialKeyanaHaliJourdanViridianaKadyKeyonaJamesha

Sibling names for Kelsy

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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