Keli

Where Keli comes from

Keli hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1955
    First appearance
    #4,376 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1979
    Keli Goff born
    American writer
  3. 1979
    Peak, #824
    190 babies named Keli — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1990
    Keli Price born
    American actor and musician
  5. 1990
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,701.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Keli Price · American actor and musician, born 1990
  • Keli Goff · American writer, born 1979
  • Keli Smith Puzo · American field hockey player, born 1979

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.