Meaning not yet researched.
Keli: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #825 in 1979.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #825 in 1979; #11,424 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Keli in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,424 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1979, at #825.
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Keli: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #825 in 1979 · most girls in one year: 190 (1979).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Keli, making it the 11,424th most common girls’ name of the year, up 5,062 places from #16,486 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 5 girls named Keli in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #825, reached in 1979. That year also had the most girls given the name: 190. For comparison, it was #15,469 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Keli in 67 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1955 with 8 babies. In all, 4,405 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,303 babies named Keli.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 49 US girls were named Keli; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 12. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kelly (556,365 babies since 1880), Kylie (122,340 babies since 1880), Kelli (75,192 babies since 1880) and Kellie (51,108 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Keliah are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Keliah (178).
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 Keli in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,424 | — | — |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,486 | — | — |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,726 | — | — |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,485 | — | — |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,292 | — | — |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,916 | — | — |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,154 | — | — |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,469 | — | — |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,595 | — | — |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,077 | — | — |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,791 | — | — |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,131 | — | — |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,088 | — | — |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,456 | — | — |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,694 | — | — |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,493 | — | — |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,108 | — | — |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,367 | — | — |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,073 | — | — |
| 2002 | 38 | #3,551 | — | — |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,265 | — | — |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,233 | — | — |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,283 | — | — |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,876 | 5 | #10,497 |
| 1997 | 38 | #3,130 | 5 | #10,058 |
| 1996 | 36 | #3,266 | — | — |
| 1995 | 48 | #2,604 | — | — |
| 1994 | 52 | #2,443 | — | — |
| 1993 | 66 | #2,081 | — | — |
| 1992 | 76 | #1,864 | — | — |
| 1991 | 82 | #1,758 | — | — |
| 1990 | 86 | #1,712 | — | — |
| 1989 | 96 | #1,501 | 6 | #7,454 |
| 1988 | 108 | #1,329 | — | — |
| 1987 | 114 | #1,243 | 5 | #7,581 |
| 1986 | 125 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 1985 | 119 | #1,189 | — | — |
| 1984 | 109 | #1,201 | — | — |
| 1983 | 138 | #1,020 | — | — |
| 1982 | 131 | #1,085 | 5 | #6,878 |
| 1981 | 146 | #1,000 | 5 | #6,797 |
| 1980 | 172 | #890 | — | — |
| 1979 | 190 | #825 | — | — |
| 1978 | 168 | #873 | 5 | #6,310 |
| 1977 | 178 | #839 | 6 | #5,502 |
| 1976 | 130 | #984 | — | — |
| 1975 | 103 | #1,132 | 7 | #4,566 |
| 1974 | 95 | #1,179 | — | — |
| 1973 | 92 | #1,178 | — | — |
| 1972 | 105 | #1,088 | — | — |
| 1971 | 115 | #1,050 | — | — |
| 1970 | 109 | #1,091 | — | — |
| 1969 | 110 | #1,045 | — | — |
| 1968 | 103 | #1,025 | — | — |
| 1967 | 87 | #1,135 | — | — |
| 1966 | 130 | #882 | — | — |
| 1965 | 114 | #962 | — | — |
| 1964 | 66 | #1,389 | — | — |
| 1963 | 59 | #1,452 | — | — |
| 1962 | 71 | #1,318 | — | — |
| 1961 | 65 | #1,390 | — | — |
| 1960 | 44 | #1,709 | — | — |
| 1959 | 28 | #2,171 | — | — |
| 1958 | 32 | #1,965 | — | — |
| 1957 | 18 | #2,774 | — | — |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,584 | — | — |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,560 | — | — |
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).