Keeli
Keeli was last recorded in 2022, when 6 babies were given it; 1,190 Americans have been recorded with it between 1958 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,160 Americans named Keeli and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 19 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keeli by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keeli?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,455, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
56 babies in 2002, the peak
Keeli peaked in 2002, when 56 girls were given it, #2,725 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6 | #14,455 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,927 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,609 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,907 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,474 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,541 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,199 | 7.9 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,211 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,149 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,573 | 9.1 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 19 | #6,736 | 10.8 |
| 2011 | 41 | #3,753 | 23.3 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,249 | 19.7 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,795 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 35 | #4,405 | 18.5 |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,684 | 22.9 |
| 2006 | 37 | #4,041 | 19.5 |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,770 | 21.1 |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,596 | 22.3 |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,972 | 27.9 |
| 2002 | 56 | #2,725 | 31.2 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,085 | 12.8 |
| 2000 | 43 | #3,185 | 23.7 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,515 | 14.1 |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,774 | 17.5 |
| 1997 | 40 | #3,006 | 23.0 |
| 1996 | 50 | #2,528 | 28.5 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,600 | 12.5 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,917 | 11.2 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,729 | 11.6 |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,940 | 10.8 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,720 | 11.2 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,591 | 11.1 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,180 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,234 | 11.8 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,527 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,433 | 10.5 |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,959 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,236 | 10.7 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,363 | 10.2 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,947 | 11.8 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,089 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,695 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,313 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,354 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,523 | 9.8 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,908 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,710 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,854 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,683 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,869 | 4.6 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,894 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,290 | 7.1 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,199 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,077 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,142 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Keeli a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keeli has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Keeli: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keeli, and how old are they?
1,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,190 Americans ever recorded as Keeli. The median Keeli alive today is 26 years old; half are between 19 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 1,077 people named Keeli (1,068 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,148 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 18 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 127 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 323 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 578 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 117 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Keeli?
Keeli is a less common spelling of Keely: SSA has recorded 1,190 Keeli and 12,719 Keely since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 720,620 babies since 1880, Keeli is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,104 babies recorded by SSA was a Keeli (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Keeli
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Keeli and names like it
- Compare Keeli and KeelyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKeeli peaked in 2002.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keeli since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Keeli.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keeli alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.