In 2025, 82 US girls were named Kelsie, making it the 2,248th most common girls’ name of the year, up 73 places from #2,321 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 80 girls named Kelsie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #230, reached in 1993. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,222. For comparison, it was #1,136 in 2015 and #5,007 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kelsie in 98 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1908 with 5 babies. In all, 19,936 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 1.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 9,766 babies named Kelsie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,328 US girls were named Kelsie; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 229. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,601 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kelsie ranked highest in Ohio in 2025, at #1,361 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kelsey (155,738 babies since 1880), Kelsi (10,151 babies since 1880), Kelsea (6,040 babies since 1880) and Kelcie (3,335 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kellsie and Kellsi are summarised on this page.