Keli
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · Last seen for boys in 1998 at #9,631
Given to girls 98.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1979 · 190 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,356since 1955
Keli over time
Rank among girls' names. Keli has never cracked the top 800 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 | #10,917 | 8 | — | |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | — | |
| 2023 | — | — | ||
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 | — | |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | — | |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | — | |
| 2019 | — | — | ||
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | — | |
| 2017 | — | — | ||
| 2016 | #8,875 | 12 | — | |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | — | |
| 2014 | — | — | ||
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 | — | |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 | — | |
| 2011 | #10,374 | 10 | — | |
| 2010 | #9,790 | 11 | — | |
| 2009 | #10,679 | 10 | — | |
| 2008 | #6,350 | 21 | — | |
| 2007 | #6,552 | 20 | — | |
| 2006 | #8,237 | 14 | — | |
| 2005 | #7,891 | 14 | — | |
| 2004 | #6,216 | 19 | — | |
| 2003 | #4,034 | 33 | — | |
| 2002 | #3,523 | 38 | — | |
| 2001 | #4,209 | 29 | — | |
| 2000 | #5,151 | 22 | — | |
| 1999 | #3,245 | 39 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,831 | 30 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #3,105 | 38 | #9,265 | 5 |
| 1996 | #3,237 | 36 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,588 | 48 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,432 | 52 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,068 | 66 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,855 | 76 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,752 | 82 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,701 | 86 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,496 | 96 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #1,327 | 108 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,240 | 114 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #1,142 | 125 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,185 | 119 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,197 | 109 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,019 | 138 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,083 | 131 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #998 | 146 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #889 | 172 | — | |
| 1979 | #824 | 190 | — | |
| 1978 | #873 | 168 | #5,772 | 5 |
| 1977 | #838 | 178 | #5,123 | 6 |
| 1976 | #980 | 130 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,127 | 103 | #4,309 | 7 |
| 1974 | #1,176 | 95 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,175 | 92 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,084 | 105 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,047 | 115 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,088 | 109 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,042 | 110 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,022 | 103 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,133 | 87 | — | |
| 1966 | #879 | 130 | — | |
| 1965 | #957 | 114 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,383 | 66 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,449 | 59 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,314 | 71 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,387 | 65 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,695 | 44 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,152 | 28 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,939 | 32 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,727 | 18 | — | |
| 1956 | #3,493 | 12 | — | |
| 1955 | #4,376 | 8 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Keli! It came in at #4,376, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2014, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Keli is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oklahoma#247 · 1 in 1,308
- Utah#364 · 1 in 2,166
- Missouri#423 · 1 in 3,406
- Virginia#600 · 1 in 5,568
- Indiana#655 · 1 in 6,959
Best ever in a state: #226 in Hawaii, 1991.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | #247 | 13 | 1 in 1,308 |
| Utah | #364 | 7 | 1 in 2,166 |
| Missouri | #423 | 9 | 1 in 3,406 |
| Virginia | #600 | 5 | 1 in 5,568 |
| Indiana | #655 | 5 | 1 in 6,959 |
| Illinois | #723 | 11 | 1 in 6,446 |
| Ohio | #748 | 8 | 1 in 8,619 |
| Florida | #759 | 7 | 1 in 6,289 |
| Georgia | #766 | 5 | 1 in 6,450 |
| Texas | #813 | 15 | 1 in 6,893 |
| Michigan | #971 | 5 | 1 in 11,510 |
| California | #1,277 | 11 | 1 in 13,939 |
| 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 Keli
- 4,376 spots since 2024 (#15,293 → #10,917)
- 2,536 spots since 2020 (#13,453 → #10,917)
- 3,565 spots since 2015 (#14,482 → #10,917)
- Biggest jump: 426 spots in 1965 (#1,383 → #957)
- Biggest drop: 254 spots in 1967 (#879 → #1,133)
- Debuted 1955
- Peaked 1979 at #824 (190 births)
- Births halved by 1990, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 1976–1981
- Highest: 1 in 8,449 girls born in 1979 were named Keli (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 29.5% of all girls named Keli (1,285) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 98 | #1,939 (1958) | #2,937 |
| 1960s | 849 | #879 (1966) | #1,226 |
| 1970s | 1,285 | #824 (1979) | #1,021 |
| 1980s | 1,258 | #889 (1980) | #1,158 |
| 1990s | 553 | #1,701 (1990) | #2,581 |
| 2000s | 220 | #3,523 (2002) | #6,284 |
| 2010s | 61 | #8,875 (2016) | #11,928 |
| 2020s | 32 | #10,917 (2025) | #13,229 |
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.
Keli in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 9,118 of them was named Keli, which outranked 92.4% 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).
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 328,367 of them was named Keli, which outranked 14.6% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 990 names at #5,772; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.