Kelby

Where Kelby comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Kelby.

  • Vowel-ended
Kelby through the years
  1. 1948
    First appearance
    #3,668 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1990
    Kelby Tomlinson born
    American baseball player
  3. 1991
    Peak, #745
    187 babies named Kelby, the most in any year.
  4. 2000
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,573.
  5. 2025
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Kelby Tomlinson · American baseball player, born 1990

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.