Meaning not yet researched.
Kellie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 19 in 2025. Its best rank was #130 in 1969.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #130 in 1969; #6,222 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kellie in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,222 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1969, at #130.
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Kellie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 19 girls in 2025. Peak: #130 in 1969 · most girls in one year: 2,641 (1969).
In 2025, 19 US girls were named Kellie, making it the 6,222nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 865 places from #7,087 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 16 girls named Kellie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #130, reached in 1969. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,641. For comparison, it was #3,508 in 2015 and #3,554 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kellie in 97 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 5 babies. In all, 51,108 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 13,752 babies named Kellie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 277 US girls were named Kellie; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 49. In 2025 that was about 1 in 84,593 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kelley (52,385 babies since 1880), Kellee (3,730 babies since 1880), Kelly (556,365 babies since 1880) and Kylie (122,340 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 Kellie in the open dataset we use.
Kellie 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 | 19 | #6,222 | — | — |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,087 | — | — |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,546 | — | — |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,101 | — | — |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,901 | — | — |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,608 | — | — |
| 2019 | 27 | #4,976 | — | — |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,888 | — | — |
| 2017 | 34 | #4,263 | — | — |
| 2016 | 49 | #3,305 | — | — |
| 2015 | 45 | #3,508 | — | — |
| 2014 | 66 | #2,666 | — | — |
| 2013 | 57 | #2,953 | — | — |
| 2012 | 70 | #2,583 | — | — |
| 2011 | 65 | #2,710 | — | — |
| 2010 | 88 | #2,213 | — | — |
| 2009 | 103 | #2,010 | — | — |
| 2008 | 132 | #1,694 | — | — |
| 2007 | 140 | #1,600 | — | — |
| 2006 | 174 | #1,337 | — | — |
| 2005 | 160 | #1,360 | — | — |
| 2004 | 220 | #1,054 | — | — |
| 2003 | 254 | #926 | — | — |
| 2002 | 303 | #777 | — | — |
| 2001 | 294 | #802 | — | — |
| 2000 | 386 | #647 | — | — |
| 1999 | 477 | #531 | — | — |
| 1998 | 465 | #541 | — | — |
| 1997 | 586 | #434 | — | — |
| 1996 | 686 | #387 | — | — |
| 1995 | 788 | #336 | — | — |
| 1994 | 828 | #326 | — | — |
| 1993 | 959 | #286 | 6 | #8,164 |
| 1992 | 1,069 | #262 | — | — |
| 1991 | 1,143 | #244 | — | — |
| 1990 | 1,087 | #264 | 8 | #6,143 |
| 1989 | 1,044 | #258 | 8 | #5,937 |
| 1988 | 1,122 | #236 | — | — |
| 1987 | 1,153 | #233 | — | — |
| 1986 | 1,077 | #241 | 5 | #7,288 |
| 1985 | 1,072 | #241 | 12 | #3,699 |
| 1984 | 1,138 | #226 | — | — |
| 1983 | 1,072 | #231 | 10 | #4,018 |
| 1982 | 1,194 | #218 | 10 | #4,101 |
| 1981 | 1,177 | #222 | 5 | #6,800 |
| 1980 | 1,260 | #206 | 8 | #4,740 |
| 1979 | 1,326 | #200 | 8 | #4,639 |
| 1978 | 1,445 | #180 | 8 | #4,369 |
| 1977 | 1,502 | #182 | 11 | #3,489 |
| 1976 | 1,174 | #209 | 9 | #3,868 |
| 1975 | 1,171 | #210 | — | — |
| 1974 | 1,089 | #233 | 7 | #4,400 |
| 1973 | 1,153 | #219 | 12 | #2,940 |
| 1972 | 1,254 | #224 | 10 | #3,253 |
| 1971 | 1,425 | #211 | 9 | #3,527 |
| 1970 | 2,130 | #158 | 9 | #3,407 |
| 1969 | 2,641 | #130 | 18 | #2,016 |
| 1968 | 1,805 | #179 | 11 | #2,670 |
| 1967 | 1,161 | #245 | 8 | #3,118 |
| 1966 | 1,197 | #243 | 6 | #3,728 |
| 1965 | 1,166 | #251 | 9 | #2,893 |
| 1964 | 1,342 | #238 | — | — |
| 1963 | 1,120 | #266 | 9 | #2,959 |
| 1962 | 1,025 | #282 | 13 | #2,314 |
| 1961 | 880 | #313 | 6 | #3,847 |
| 1960 | 785 | #335 | — | — |
| 1959 | 596 | #389 | 6 | #3,811 |
| 1958 | 467 | #439 | 5 | #4,234 |
| 1957 | 204 | #699 | — | — |
| 1956 | 123 | #906 | 5 | #4,212 |
| 1955 | 75 | #1,153 | — | — |
| 1954 | 69 | #1,210 | — | — |
| 1953 | 49 | #1,401 | — | — |
| 1952 | 36 | #1,623 | — | — |
| 1951 | 23 | #2,084 | — | — |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,554 | — | — |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,674 | 5 | #3,975 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,950 | — | — |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,577 | — | — |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,331 | — | — |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,835 | — | — |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,538 | — | — |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,589 | — | — |
| 1936 | — | — | 5 | #3,822 |
| 1930 | — | — | 6 | #3,812 |
| 1929 | — | — | 6 | #3,761 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,218 | 10 | #2,809 |
| 1926 | — | — | 7 | #3,565 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,477 | 10 | #2,928 |
| 1922 | — | — | 7 | #3,707 |
| 1921 | — | — | 7 | #3,708 |
| 1920 | — | — | 7 | #3,657 |
| 1919 | — | — | 8 | #3,260 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,498 |
| 1917 | — | — | 9 | #2,849 |
| 1914 | — | — | 11 | #2,040 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,435 | — | — |
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).