Meaning not yet researched.
Keely: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 63 in 2025. Its best rank was #455 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #455 in 1997; #2,737 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Keely in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,737 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #455.
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Keely: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 63 girls in 2025. Peak: #455 in 1997 · most girls in one year: 555 (1997).
In 2025, 63 US girls were named Keely, making it the 2,737th most common girls’ name of the year, down 676 places from #2,061 in 2024. That is 31 fewer than the 94 girls named Keely in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #455, reached in 1997. That year also had the most girls given the name: 555. For comparison, it was #2,002 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Keely in 69 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1957 with 7 babies. In all, 12,719 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 3,669 babies named Keely.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 759 US girls were named Keely; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 94. In 2025 that was about 1 in 25,512 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Keely ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #3,120 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kelly (556,365 babies since 1880), Kelli (75,192 babies since 1880), Kelley (52,385 babies since 1880) and Keeley (6,741 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Keely in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #3,120 | #2,487 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63 | #2,737 | — | — |
| 2024 | 94 | #2,061 | — | — |
| 2023 | 66 | #2,658 | — | — |
| 2022 | 87 | #2,183 | — | — |
| 2021 | 73 | #2,451 | — | — |
| 2020 | 67 | #2,565 | — | — |
| 2019 | 57 | #2,911 | — | — |
| 2018 | 85 | #2,199 | — | — |
| 2017 | 81 | #2,294 | — | — |
| 2016 | 86 | #2,237 | — | — |
| 2015 | 99 | #2,002 | — | — |
| 2014 | 131 | #1,640 | — | — |
| 2013 | 149 | #1,491 | — | — |
| 2012 | 171 | #1,369 | — | — |
| 2011 | 185 | #1,283 | — | — |
| 2010 | 214 | #1,144 | — | — |
| 2009 | 286 | #937 | — | — |
| 2008 | 335 | #842 | — | — |
| 2007 | 399 | #731 | — | — |
| 2006 | 407 | #698 | 5 | #13,069 |
| 2005 | 318 | #814 | — | — |
| 2004 | 335 | #772 | — | — |
| 2003 | 368 | #711 | — | — |
| 2002 | 397 | #640 | — | — |
| 2001 | 398 | #633 | 5 | #11,501 |
| 2000 | 416 | #610 | — | — |
| 1999 | 382 | #622 | — | — |
| 1998 | 466 | #537 | — | — |
| 1997 | 555 | #455 | — | — |
| 1996 | 454 | #518 | 6 | #8,481 |
| 1995 | 205 | #922 | — | — |
| 1994 | 227 | #865 | — | — |
| 1993 | 239 | #826 | — | — |
| 1992 | 288 | #738 | — | — |
| 1991 | 259 | #793 | — | — |
| 1990 | 267 | #766 | — | — |
| 1989 | 211 | #876 | — | — |
| 1988 | 158 | #1,026 | 5 | #7,919 |
| 1987 | 152 | #1,017 | — | — |
| 1986 | 177 | #912 | — | — |
| 1985 | 180 | #890 | — | — |
| 1984 | 202 | #794 | — | — |
| 1983 | 157 | #946 | — | — |
| 1982 | 183 | #851 | — | — |
| 1981 | 155 | #949 | — | — |
| 1980 | 158 | #950 | — | — |
| 1979 | 171 | #886 | — | — |
| 1978 | 182 | #822 | — | — |
| 1977 | 137 | #992 | — | — |
| 1976 | 119 | #1,038 | — | — |
| 1975 | 140 | #925 | — | — |
| 1974 | 133 | #935 | — | — |
| 1973 | 123 | #967 | — | — |
| 1972 | 99 | #1,123 | — | — |
| 1971 | 88 | #1,258 | — | — |
| 1970 | 113 | #1,075 | — | — |
| 1969 | 123 | #966 | — | — |
| 1968 | 77 | #1,252 | — | — |
| 1967 | 55 | #1,519 | — | — |
| 1966 | 41 | #1,781 | — | — |
| 1965 | 40 | #1,817 | — | — |
| 1964 | 56 | #1,527 | — | — |
| 1963 | 74 | #1,284 | — | — |
| 1962 | 69 | #1,337 | — | — |
| 1961 | 88 | #1,176 | — | — |
| 1960 | 118 | #989 | — | — |
| 1959 | 119 | #967 | — | — |
| 1958 | 84 | #1,159 | — | — |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,131 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).