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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2001
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Hawaii#160 · 1 in 491
- Montana#170 · 1 in 558
- Arkansas#262 · 1 in 1,166
- Kentucky#286 · 1 in 1,532
- Mississippi#297 · 1 in 1,289
Best ever in a state: #125 in Montana, 2000.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | #160 | 7 | 1 in 491 |
| Montana | #170 | 5 | 1 in 558 |
| Arkansas | #262 | 10 | 1 in 1,166 |
| Kentucky | #286 | 13 | 1 in 1,532 |
| Mississippi | #297 | 9 | 1 in 1,289 |
| Tennessee | #310 | 19 | 1 in 1,588 |
| Missouri | #321 | 17 | 1 in 1,684 |
| Louisiana | #329 | 13 | 1 in 1,598 |
| Iowa | #361 | 7 | 1 in 1,961 |
| Kansas | #393 | 7 | 1 in 1,893 |
| Oklahoma | #398 | 9 | 1 in 1,859 |
| South Carolina | #409 | 8 | 1 in 2,098 |
| Indiana | #419 | 14 | 1 in 2,361 |
| Virginia | #430 | 15 | 1 in 2,340 |
| Washington | #448 | 13 | 1 in 2,210 |
| Colorado | #464 | 11 | 1 in 2,224 |
| North Carolina | #476 | 17 | 1 in 2,602 |
| Alabama | #517 | 7 | 1 in 2,852 |
| Minnesota | #517 | 8 | 1 in 3,155 |
| Ohio | #596 | 14 | 1 in 4,255 |
| Georgia | #655 | 12 | 1 in 4,020 |
| Arizona | #656 | 10 | 1 in 3,202 |
| Illinois | #737 | 15 | 1 in 4,692 |
| Michigan | #761 | 9 | 1 in 5,547 |
| Pennsylvania | #828 | 8 | 1 in 6,999 |
| Texas | #846 | 28 | 1 in 5,472 |
| California | #1,010 | 30 | 1 in 7,409 |
| Florida | #1,227 | 8 | 1 in 9,667 |
| New York | #1,498 | 8 | 1 in 12,245 |
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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 2001
Top girls' names in 2001
Top boys' names in 2001
More about 2001
girls
1,800,624 girls got a published name in 2001; 1 in 4,524 of them was named Keely, which outranked 96.5% of the 17,978 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,942,881 boys got a published name in 2001; 1 in 388,576 of them was named Keely, which outranked 14.2% of the 12,307 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,751 names at #10,556; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.