Keely
#2,719 for girls in 2025, 63 births · Last seen for boys in 2006 at #12,055
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1997 · 555 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 12,698since 1957
Keely over time
Rank among girls' names. Keely has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,719 | 63 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,053 | 94 | — | |
| 2023 | #2,646 | 66 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,174 | 87 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,440 | 73 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,549 | 67 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,891 | 57 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,190 | 85 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,283 | 81 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,221 | 86 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,996 | 99 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,634 | 131 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,487 | 149 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,364 | 171 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,280 | 185 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,143 | 214 | — | |
| 2009 | #936 | 286 | — | |
| 2008 | #842 | 335 | — | |
| 2007 | #730 | 399 | — | |
| 2006 | #698 | 407 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #812 | 318 | — | |
| 2004 | #771 | 335 | — | |
| 2003 | #709 | 368 | — | |
| 2002 | #640 | 397 | — | |
| 2001 | #632 | 398 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | #610 | 416 | — | |
| 1999 | #622 | 382 | — | |
| 1998 | #537 | 466 | — | |
| 1997 | #455 | 555 | — | |
| 1996 | #518 | 454 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #919 | 205 | — | |
| 1994 | #863 | 227 | — | |
| 1993 | #826 | 239 | — | |
| 1992 | #734 | 288 | — | |
| 1991 | #789 | 259 | — | |
| 1990 | #766 | 267 | — | |
| 1989 | #874 | 211 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,025 | 158 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #1,016 | 152 | — | |
| 1986 | #909 | 177 | — | |
| 1985 | #886 | 180 | — | |
| 1984 | #792 | 202 | — | |
| 1983 | #942 | 157 | — | |
| 1982 | #850 | 183 | — | |
| 1981 | #948 | 155 | — | |
| 1980 | #948 | 158 | — | |
| 1979 | #885 | 171 | — | |
| 1978 | #822 | 182 | — | |
| 1977 | #992 | 137 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,036 | 119 | — | |
| 1975 | #923 | 140 | — | |
| 1974 | #935 | 133 | — | |
| 1973 | #963 | 123 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,116 | 99 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,253 | 88 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,074 | 113 | — | |
| 1969 | #965 | 123 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,244 | 77 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,506 | 55 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,766 | 41 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,801 | 40 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,518 | 56 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,280 | 74 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,332 | 69 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,176 | 88 | — | |
| 1960 | #987 | 118 | — | |
| 1959 | #965 | 119 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,157 | 84 | — | |
| 1957 | #4,918 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Keely! It came in at #4,918, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1957, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
Where Keely is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Minnesota#314 · 1 in 2,413
- Oklahoma#386 · 1 in 2,429
- Colorado#418 · 1 in 2,883
- Arizona#462 · 1 in 2,731
- Kentucky#511 · 1 in 4,778
Best ever in a state: #125 in Montana, 2000.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Minnesota | #314 | 11 | 1 in 2,413 |
| Oklahoma | #386 | 7 | 1 in 2,429 |
| Colorado | #418 | 6 | 1 in 2,883 |
| Arizona | #462 | 6 | 1 in 2,731 |
| Kentucky | #511 | 5 | 1 in 4,778 |
| Washington | #515 | 6 | 1 in 3,824 |
| Louisiana | #529 | 8 | 1 in 3,440 |
| Ohio | #570 | 12 | 1 in 5,746 |
| Georgia | #602 | 7 | 1 in 4,607 |
| Florida | #700 | 8 | 1 in 5,503 |
| Texas | #813 | 15 | 1 in 6,893 |
| Illinois | #894 | 8 | 1 in 8,863 |
| California | #930 | 18 | 1 in 8,518 |
| Pennsylvania | #998 | 5 | 1 in 13,201 |
| New York | #1,604 | 5 | 1 in 19,665 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Keely
- 666 spots since 2024 (#2,053 → #2,719)
- 170 spots since 2020 (#2,549 → #2,719)
- 723 spots since 2015 (#1,996 → #2,719)
- Biggest jump: 401 spots in 1996 (#919 → #518)
- Biggest drop: 207 spots in 2010 (#936 → #1,143)
- Debuted 1957
- Peaked 1997 at #455 (555 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 37 yrs · run 1989–2009
- Highest: 1 in 3,136 girls born in 1997 were named Keely (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 25,512 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 28.8% of all girls named Keely (3,659) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 210 | #965 (1959) | #2,347 |
| 1960s | 741 | #965 (1969) | #1,358 |
| 1970s | 1,305 | #822 (1978) | #1,000 |
| 1980s | 1,733 | #792 (1984) | #919 |
| 1990s | 3,342 | #455 (1997) | #703 |
| 2000s | 3,659 | #610 (2000) | #738 |
| 2010s | 1,258 | #1,143 (2010) | #1,849 |
| 2020s | 450 | #2,053 (2024) | #2,430 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Keely in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 8,417 of them was named Keely, which outranked 92.8% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).