Meaning not yet researched.
Kelsea: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 38 in 2025. Its best rank was #521 in 1992.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #521 in 1992; #3,869 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kelsea in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,869 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1992, at #521.
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Kelsea: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 38 girls in 2025. Peak: #521 in 1992 · most girls in one year: 457 (1992).
In 2025, 38 US girls were named Kelsea, making it the 3,869th most common girls’ name of the year, up 59 places from #3,928 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 38 girls named Kelsea in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #521, reached in 1992. That year also had the most girls given the name: 457. For comparison, it was #3,412 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kelsea in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 5 babies. In all, 6,040 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 3,322 babies named Kelsea.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 603 US girls were named Kelsea; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 92. In 2025 that was about 1 in 42,297 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kelsey (155,738 babies since 1880), Kelsie (19,936 babies since 1880), Kelsi (10,151 babies since 1880) and Kelsy (3,270 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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 Kelsea 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 | 38 | #3,869 | — | — |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,928 | — | — |
| 2023 | 42 | #3,677 | — | — |
| 2022 | 57 | #2,947 | — | — |
| 2021 | 55 | #3,019 | — | — |
| 2020 | 73 | #2,407 | — | — |
| 2019 | 58 | #2,873 | — | — |
| 2018 | 70 | #2,520 | — | — |
| 2017 | 92 | #2,102 | — | — |
| 2016 | 80 | #2,354 | — | — |
| 2015 | 47 | #3,412 | — | — |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,145 | — | — |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,593 | — | — |
| 2012 | 54 | #3,118 | — | — |
| 2011 | 51 | #3,243 | — | — |
| 2010 | 67 | #2,680 | — | — |
| 2009 | 75 | #2,520 | — | — |
| 2008 | 84 | #2,328 | — | — |
| 2007 | 83 | #2,321 | — | — |
| 2006 | 113 | #1,816 | — | — |
| 2005 | 121 | #1,654 | — | — |
| 2004 | 126 | #1,567 | — | — |
| 2003 | 150 | #1,353 | — | — |
| 2002 | 144 | #1,347 | — | — |
| 2001 | 145 | #1,328 | — | — |
| 2000 | 163 | #1,222 | — | — |
| 1999 | 171 | #1,150 | — | — |
| 1998 | 233 | #905 | — | — |
| 1997 | 292 | #731 | — | — |
| 1996 | 342 | #652 | — | — |
| 1995 | 337 | #642 | — | — |
| 1994 | 408 | #567 | — | — |
| 1993 | 452 | #530 | — | — |
| 1992 | 457 | #521 | — | — |
| 1991 | 368 | #614 | — | — |
| 1990 | 262 | #780 | — | — |
| 1989 | 221 | #847 | 5 | #8,601 |
| 1988 | 125 | #1,207 | — | — |
| 1987 | 82 | #1,550 | — | — |
| 1986 | 52 | #2,061 | — | — |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,124 | — | — |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,954 | — | — |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,192 | — | — |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,950 | — | — |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,560 | — | — |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,745 | — | — |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,959 | — | — |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,041 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,987 | — | — |
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).