Kelis

Where Kelis comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Kelis.

Kelis through the years
  1. 1999
    Around this time: Kaleidoscope by Kelis
    Album, 1999 · Source
  2. 2000
    First appearance
    #1,632 among girls with 108 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 2007
    Peak, #968
    277 babies named Kelis, the most in any year.
  4. 2010
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,603.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Kelis in Wikidata.

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. Events show what happened around then, not why parents chose the name.