Kelby — #6223 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kelby

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,001 babies named Kelby between 1948 and 2024, spanning 77 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kelby currently holds the #6223 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 187 babies received it in a single year. Kelby is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,549 additional births since 1974.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kelby performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 1,364 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Kelby shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 387 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Oklahoma and Utah. In total, SSA state-level files list Kelby in 30 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kelby 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 4,001 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.