Girls' name · since 1971
Kealy
Kealy has 422 recorded births since 1971 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2000 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #13,091 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 422
- born since 1971
- 2000s
- peak decade
Kealy is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 422 have been recorded since 1971.
Kealy has 422 recorded births among girls since 1971, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1971 to 2015.
- #13,091 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 422 born since 1971
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Kealy ranks #13,091 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 422 born since 1971, peaking in the 2000s.
- #13,091 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 422
- born since 1971
- 2000s
- peak decade
Kealy's 422 recorded births place it above 81.88% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kealy's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Kealy splits its recorded history at 1996: 64% of all births land in the more recent half, 36% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 1971 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2000 peak of 24 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Kealy popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1971–2015
- Peak year (2000)
- 24
- Annual births at peak, across 45 years of records
Kealy by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (156 births, 37% of the file).
2000s was Kealy's strongest decade.
156 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 37% of all-time use.
Kealy births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 30
1970s
30 births
- 1980s 58
1980s
58 births
- 1990s
1990s
132 births
- 2000s
2000s
156 births
- 2010s 46
2010s
46 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 156 births (37% of all-time use).
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- Kealy's decade-level peak was the 2000s (156 total births); usage has since declined to 46 in the 2010s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Kealy: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2000)
Similar record span (~44 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1971–2015 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Kealy draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.