Kelsi
#3,903 for girls in 2025, 37 births
- Peak · girls
- 1991 · 624 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 10,151since 1969
Kelsi over time
Rank among girls' names. Kelsi has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,903 | 37 |
| 2024 | #3,225 | 49 |
| 2023 | #4,047 | 36 |
| 2022 | #3,220 | 50 |
| 2021 | #2,958 | 56 |
| 2020 | #2,468 | 70 |
| 2019 | #2,331 | 77 |
| 2018 | #1,813 | 112 |
| 2017 | #1,954 | 102 |
| 2016 | #2,221 | 86 |
| 2015 | #2,318 | 80 |
| 2014 | #1,794 | 114 |
| 2013 | #2,052 | 94 |
| 2012 | #2,028 | 95 |
| 2011 | #1,577 | 138 |
| 2010 | #1,688 | 125 |
| 2009 | #1,432 | 163 |
| 2008 | #1,573 | 145 |
| 2007 | #1,224 | 204 |
| 2006 | #1,260 | 190 |
| 2005 | #1,239 | 183 |
| 2004 | #1,258 | 172 |
| 2003 | #1,079 | 205 |
| 2002 | #909 | 245 |
| 2001 | #810 | 290 |
| 2000 | #753 | 304 |
| 1999 | #686 | 330 |
| 1998 | #521 | 483 |
| 1997 | #495 | 500 |
| 1996 | #473 | 520 |
| 1995 | #493 | 501 |
| 1994 | #519 | 481 |
| 1993 | #455 | 548 |
| 1992 | #436 | 575 |
| 1991 | #410 | 624 |
| 1990 | #496 | 492 |
| 1989 | #527 | 441 |
| 1988 | #662 | 292 |
| 1987 | #785 | 226 |
| 1986 | #1,057 | 142 |
| 1985 | #1,226 | 112 |
| 1984 | #1,279 | 98 |
| 1983 | #1,585 | 70 |
| 1982 | #1,735 | 64 |
| 1981 | #2,774 | 32 |
| 1980 | #2,699 | 34 |
| 1979 | #2,477 | 37 |
| 1978 | #3,388 | 22 |
| 1977 | #3,267 | 23 |
| 1976 | #3,002 | 24 |
| 1975 | #3,404 | 20 |
| 1974 | #3,863 | 16 |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 |
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| 1971 | #4,810 | 11 |
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| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kelsi! It came in at #6,617, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1970, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Kelsi is popular in 1986
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Iowa#251 · 1 in 1,595
- Oregon#253 · 1 in 1,396
- Hawaii#264 · 1 in 976
- Kansas#287 · 1 in 1,812
- Utah#389 · 1 in 2,328
Best ever in a state: #99 in Idaho, 1988.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Iowa | #251 | 10 | 1 in 1,595 |
| Oregon | #253 | 11 | 1 in 1,396 |
| Hawaii | #264 | 5 | 1 in 976 |
| Kansas | #287 | 8 | 1 in 1,812 |
| Utah | #389 | 6 | 1 in 2,328 |
| Washington | #541 | 7 | 1 in 3,886 |
| Wisconsin | #575 | 5 | 1 in 5,935 |
| Louisiana | #634 | 6 | 1 in 4,700 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,043 | 5 | 1 in 13,746 |
| Illinois | #1,097 | 6 | 1 in 11,823 |
| California | #1,269 | 15 | 1 in 13,847 |
| Texas | #1,508 | 7 | 1 in 18,810 |
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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 Kelsi
- 678 spots since 2024 (#3,225 → #3,903)
- 1,435 spots since 2020 (#2,468 → #3,903)
- 1,585 spots since 2015 (#2,318 → #3,903)
- Biggest jump: 272 spots in 1987 (#1,057 → #785)
- Biggest drop: 170 spots in 2003 (#909 → #1,079)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 1991 at #410 (624 births)
- Births halved by 2000, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 1987–2002
- Highest: 1 in 3,005 girls born in 1991 were named Kelsi (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 43,440 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 49.8% of all girls named Kelsi (5,054) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1960s | 6 | #6,617 (1969) | #6,617 |
| 1970s | 158 | #2,477 (1979) | #4,079 |
| 1980s | 1,511 | #527 (1989) | #1,433 |
| 1990s | 5,054 | #410 (1991) | #498 |
| 2000s | 2,101 | #753 (2000) | #1,154 |
| 2010s | 1,023 | #1,577 (2011) | #1,978 |
| 2020s | 298 | #2,468 (2020) | #3,304 |
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.
Kelsi in 1986
Top girls' names in 1986
More about 1986
girls
1,715,547 girls got a published name in 1986; 1 in 12,081 of them was named Kelsi, which outranked 91.8% of the 12,836 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,047Mariela144
- #1,055Alex143
- #1,055Marcela143
- #1,057Kelsi142
- #1,057Anjelica142
- #1,057Brian142
- #1,057Chaya142
- #1,065Afton141
- #1,065Alessandra141
- #1,065Alia141
Tied with 7 names at #1,057; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.