Meaning not yet researched.
Kelli: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #115 in 1970.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #115 in 1970; #6,690 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kelli in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,690 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1970, at #115.
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Kelli: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 girls in 2025. Peak: #115 in 1970 · most girls in one year: 3,331 (1970).
In 2025, 17 US girls were named Kelli, making it the 6,690th most common girls’ name of the year, up 730 places from #7,420 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 15 girls named Kelli in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #115, reached in 1970. That year also had the most girls given the name: 3,331. For comparison, it was #3,734 in 2015 and #4,143 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kelli in 79 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1945 with 5 babies. In all, 75,192 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 21,637 babies named Kelli.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 279 US girls were named Kelli; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 40. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,545 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kelly (556,365 babies since 1880), Kelley (52,385 babies since 1880), Kellie (51,108 babies since 1880) and Keely (12,719 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kealii, Keelia and Kieli 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: Kealii (284), Keelia (162), Kieli (72), Kealia (60), Keilei (29), Keylei (25), Kilei (20), Kiali (10), Keilia (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 Kelli in the open dataset we use.
Kelli is listed as a nickname for Kelley.
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 | 17 | #6,690 | — | — |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,420 | — | — |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,651 | — | — |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,399 | — | — |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,481 | — | — |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,315 | — | — |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,824 | — | — |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,967 | — | — |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,633 | — | — |
| 2016 | 40 | #3,819 | — | — |
| 2015 | 41 | #3,734 | — | — |
| 2014 | 52 | #3,164 | — | — |
| 2013 | 42 | #3,672 | — | — |
| 2012 | 66 | #2,696 | — | — |
| 2011 | 67 | #2,650 | — | — |
| 2010 | 76 | #2,465 | — | — |
| 2009 | 98 | #2,082 | — | — |
| 2008 | 118 | #1,833 | — | — |
| 2007 | 129 | #1,699 | — | — |
| 2006 | 152 | #1,464 | — | — |
| 2005 | 194 | #1,187 | — | — |
| 2004 | 260 | #927 | — | — |
| 2003 | 320 | #776 | — | — |
| 2002 | 368 | #682 | — | — |
| 2001 | 448 | #573 | — | — |
| 2000 | 483 | #538 | — | — |
| 1999 | 549 | #477 | — | — |
| 1998 | 572 | #452 | 5 | #10,498 |
| 1997 | 670 | #387 | — | — |
| 1996 | 792 | #351 | — | — |
| 1995 | 923 | #301 | — | — |
| 1994 | 1,063 | #263 | — | — |
| 1993 | 1,229 | #227 | — | — |
| 1992 | 1,336 | #216 | — | — |
| 1991 | 1,498 | #197 | 10 | #5,301 |
| 1990 | 1,605 | #182 | 11 | #4,849 |
| 1989 | 1,734 | #165 | 12 | #4,408 |
| 1988 | 1,864 | #150 | 13 | #3,798 |
| 1987 | 2,110 | #131 | 11 | #4,114 |
| 1986 | 2,000 | #142 | 10 | #4,311 |
| 1985 | 2,059 | #142 | 10 | #4,211 |
| 1984 | 1,981 | #147 | 10 | #4,074 |
| 1983 | 2,162 | #136 | 10 | #4,017 |
| 1982 | 2,373 | #127 | 13 | #3,403 |
| 1981 | 2,280 | #126 | 21 | #2,381 |
| 1980 | 2,486 | #125 | 16 | #2,894 |
| 1979 | 2,218 | #129 | 11 | #3,701 |
| 1978 | 2,326 | #124 | 5 | #6,312 |
| 1977 | 2,466 | #117 | 9 | #4,013 |
| 1976 | 1,820 | #147 | 9 | #3,867 |
| 1975 | 1,768 | #152 | 10 | #3,550 |
| 1974 | 1,606 | #168 | 13 | #2,877 |
| 1973 | 1,725 | #157 | 8 | #3,894 |
| 1972 | 1,899 | #150 | 9 | #3,488 |
| 1971 | 2,381 | #135 | 10 | #3,263 |
| 1970 | 3,331 | #115 | 13 | #2,683 |
| 1969 | 3,055 | #115 | 14 | #2,365 |
| 1968 | 2,321 | #137 | 8 | #3,243 |
| 1967 | 1,810 | #174 | 5 | #4,265 |
| 1966 | 1,730 | #190 | 8 | #3,122 |
| 1965 | 1,538 | #215 | 7 | #3,408 |
| 1964 | 1,650 | #212 | — | — |
| 1963 | 1,385 | #235 | 10 | #2,771 |
| 1962 | 1,317 | #240 | — | — |
| 1961 | 1,106 | #275 | — | — |
| 1960 | 955 | #301 | — | — |
| 1959 | 762 | #346 | — | — |
| 1958 | 533 | #399 | — | — |
| 1957 | 288 | #569 | — | — |
| 1956 | 132 | #871 | — | — |
| 1955 | 94 | #1,038 | — | — |
| 1954 | 62 | #1,262 | — | — |
| 1953 | 59 | #1,269 | — | — |
| 1952 | 30 | #1,840 | — | — |
| 1951 | 18 | #2,434 | — | — |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,143 | — | — |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,755 | — | — |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,707 | — | — |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,902 | — | — |
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).