Keelie
Keelie was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,160 among girls’ names; 1,516 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,490 Americans named Keelie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 16 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keelie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keelie?
#9,160 among girls’ names, 2025
Keelie fell from #4,790 in 2015 to #9,160 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.2 to 6.8 per million.
75 babies in 2007, the peak
Keelie peaked in 2007, when 75 girls were given it, #2,496 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,160 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,082 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,958 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,575 | 11.0 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,261 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,675 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,076 | 11.9 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,656 | 10.6 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,410 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,921 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #4,790 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,836 | 16.2 |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,609 | 24.5 |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,400 | 27.3 |
| 2011 | 55 | #3,072 | 31.3 |
| 2010 | 65 | #2,740 | 36.6 |
| 2009 | 48 | #3,435 | 26.1 |
| 2008 | 71 | #2,617 | 37.5 |
| 2007 | 75 | #2,496 | 39.0 |
| 2006 | 69 | #2,617 | 36.3 |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,885 | 30.8 |
| 2004 | 47 | #3,241 | 25.6 |
| 2003 | 48 | #3,100 | 26.3 |
| 2002 | 50 | #2,952 | 27.8 |
| 2001 | 41 | #3,338 | 22.8 |
| 2000 | 45 | #3,093 | 24.8 |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,872 | 26.5 |
| 1998 | 46 | #2,863 | 26.0 |
| 1997 | 51 | #2,532 | 29.3 |
| 1996 | 27 | #3,991 | 15.4 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,601 | 12.5 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,346 | 10.1 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,902 | 11.1 |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,532 | 16.8 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,082 | 10.1 |
| 1990 | 24 | #4,162 | 12.6 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,361 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,056 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,947 | 9.2 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,943 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,237 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,355 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,993 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,773 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,080 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,092 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,929 | 6.9 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,565 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,977 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,733 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,513 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,339 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,855 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,024 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,133 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,226 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,537 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,190 | 4.8 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,025 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Keelie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keelie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Keelie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keelie, and how old are they?
1,490 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,516 Americans ever recorded as Keelie. The median Keelie alive today is 21 years old; half are between 16 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 1,317 people named Keelie (1,307 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,419 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 113 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 254 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 854 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 264 |
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).
Where are babies named Keelie born?
The states with the most babies named Keelie are Texas, Georgia and Louisiana, with 78% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 105 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 12 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Louisiana | 11 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Oklahoma | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Arkansas | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| California | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Keelie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Keelie?
Keelie is a less common spelling of Keely: SSA has recorded 1,516 Keelie and 12,719 Keely since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 157,758 babies since 1880, Keelie is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 253 babies (4.3%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Keelie
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 Keelie and names like it
- Compare Keelie and KeelyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKeelie peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keelie since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Keelie.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keelie alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.