Meaning not yet researched.
Kelis: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 26 in 2025. Its best rank was #972 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #972 in 2007; #5,040 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kelis in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,040 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #972.
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Kelis: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 26 girls in 2025. Peak: #972 in 2007 · most girls in one year: 277 (2007).
In 2025, 26 US girls were named Kelis, making it the 5,040th most common girls’ name of the year, down 608 places from #4,432 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 32 girls named Kelis in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #972, reached in 2007. That year also had the most girls given the name: 277. For comparison, it was #2,099 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kelis in 26 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2000 with 114 babies. In all, 2,877 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,549 babies named Kelis.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 624 US girls were named Kelis; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 99. In 2025 that was about 1 in 61,818 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Kelise, Kellis and Kelyse 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kelise (669), Kellis (215), Kelyse (89), Kylise (20), Kellise (10), Kelias (5), Kylis (5), Killis (5).
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 Kelis 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 | 26 | #5,040 | — | — |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,432 | — | — |
| 2023 | 48 | #3,350 | — | — |
| 2022 | 73 | #2,479 | — | — |
| 2021 | 70 | #2,524 | — | — |
| 2020 | 60 | #2,763 | — | — |
| 2019 | 75 | #2,389 | — | — |
| 2018 | 99 | #1,990 | — | — |
| 2017 | 68 | #2,586 | — | — |
| 2016 | 73 | #2,495 | — | — |
| 2015 | 93 | #2,099 | — | — |
| 2014 | 106 | #1,899 | — | — |
| 2013 | 103 | #1,933 | — | — |
| 2012 | 148 | #1,508 | — | — |
| 2011 | 119 | #1,735 | — | — |
| 2010 | 135 | #1,607 | — | — |
| 2009 | 199 | #1,245 | — | — |
| 2008 | 178 | #1,363 | — | — |
| 2007 | 277 | #972 | — | — |
| 2006 | 235 | #1,082 | — | — |
| 2005 | 142 | #1,484 | — | — |
| 2004 | 191 | #1,178 | — | — |
| 2003 | 88 | #2,037 | — | — |
| 2002 | 71 | #2,297 | — | — |
| 2001 | 54 | #2,756 | — | — |
| 2000 | 108 | #1,637 | 6 | #9,743 |
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).