In 2025, 11 US girls were named Keelie, making it the 9,163rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,077 places from #7,086 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 16 girls named Keelie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,496, reached in 2007. That year also had the most girls given the name: 75. For comparison, it was #4,791 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Keelie in 59 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1962 with 5 babies. In all, 1,516 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 551 babies named Keelie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 165 US girls were named Keelie; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 28. In 2025 that was about 1 in 146,115 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kylie (122,340 babies since 1880), Kelli (75,192 babies since 1880), Kellie (51,108 babies since 1880) and Keely (12,719 babies since 1880).