Kaelly — girls' name
52 babies named Kaelly in U.S. Social Security records since 1997, with the highest year being 2007. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
50% of everyone ever named Kaelly was born in this single decade.
9 babies were named Kaelly in 2007 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kaelly
The Social Security Administration has registered 52 babies named Kaelly between 1997 and 2023, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kaelly currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 9 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kaelly performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 26 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Kaelly shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kaelly in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kaelly in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 52 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Kaelly at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Kaelly popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1997
- Peak year (2007)
- 9
- Annual births at peak — across 27 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
52 total births across 27 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2007 with 9 births in a single year.
Kaelly by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 26 births that decade — 50% of Kaelly's all-time total
Kaelly decade highlights
- Peak decade 26 births
- Runner-up 14 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Kaelly's strongest decade
26 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 50% of all-time use.
Kaelly by state
Where Kaelly concentrates geographically — total births since 1997
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 6 | 11.5% |
6 of 52 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 11.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 11.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1997–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.