Kelis
#4,987 for girls in 2025, 26 births · Last seen for boys in 2000 at #9,112
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2007 · 277 births
- Debut · girls
- 108 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,871since 2000
Kelis over time
Rank among girls' names. Kelis has never cracked the top 900 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 | #4,987 | 26 | — | |
| 2024 | #4,387 | 32 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,329 | 48 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,463 | 73 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,510 | 70 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,748 | 60 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,376 | 75 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,978 | 99 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,573 | 68 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,479 | 73 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,088 | 93 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,892 | 106 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,929 | 103 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,503 | 148 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,728 | 119 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,603 | 135 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,241 | 199 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,359 | 178 | — | |
| 2007 | #968 | 277 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,080 | 235 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,479 | 142 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,175 | 191 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,033 | 88 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,288 | 71 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,740 | 54 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,632 | 108 | #9,112 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kelis! It came in at #1,632, and was given to 108 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2024–2025, when fewer than 33 girls a year got the name.
Where Kelis is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Alabama#635 · 1 in 3,078
- Florida#845 · 1 in 4,977
- Indiana#888 · 1 in 5,006
- New Jersey#904 · 1 in 5,216
- North Carolina#955 · 1 in 5,494
Best ever in a state: #229 in District of Columbia, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Alabama | #635 | 6 | 1 in 3,078 |
| Florida | #845 | 16 | 1 in 4,977 |
| Indiana | #888 | 6 | 1 in 5,006 |
| New Jersey | #904 | 7 | 1 in 5,216 |
| North Carolina | #955 | 8 | 1 in 5,494 |
| Virginia | #1,015 | 6 | 1 in 6,064 |
| Illinois | #1,177 | 8 | 1 in 7,345 |
| Georgia | #1,288 | 6 | 1 in 7,885 |
| Ohio | #1,419 | 5 | 1 in 10,315 |
| New York | #1,490 | 9 | 1 in 10,252 |
| Texas | #1,560 | 14 | 1 in 11,308 |
| California | #1,936 | 12 | 1 in 17,424 |
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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 Kelis
- 600 spots since 2024 (#4,387 → #4,987)
- 2,239 spots since 2020 (#2,748 → #4,987)
- 2,899 spots since 2015 (#2,088 → #4,987)
- Biggest jump: 112 spots in 2007 (#1,080 → #968)
- Biggest drop: 391 spots in 2008 (#968 → #1,359)
- Debuted 2000
- Peaked 2007 at #968 (277 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2007
- Highest: 1 in 6,941 girls born in 2007 were named Kelis (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 61,818 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 53.7% of all girls named Kelis (1,543) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,543 | #968 (2007) | #1,600 |
| 2010s | 1,019 | #1,503 (2012) | #2,015 |
| 2020s | 309 | #2,463 (2022) | #3,404 |
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.
Kelis in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 11,899 of them was named Kelis, which outranked 92.3% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,500Kayli149
- #1,500Laci149
- #1,500Rocio149
- #1,503Kelis148
- #1,503Arlette148
- #1,503Colleen148
- #1,503Isadora148
- #1,510Arianny147
- #1,510Calliope147
- #1,510Khaleesi147
Tied with 6 names at #1,503; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.