Kelcey
Kelcey was last recorded in 2024, when 10 babies were given it; 2,821 Americans have been recorded with it between 1958 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,720 Americans named Kelcey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 28 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kelcey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kelcey mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kelcey is “a unisex given name.”
/ˈkɛlsi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kelcey?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,899, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
176 babies in 1991, the peak
Kelcey peaked in 1991, when 176 babies were given it (149 girls, #1,175 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10 | #9,899 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,301 | 5 | #13,236 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,478 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,327 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,689 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,752 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,346 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,480 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,226 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,151 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 8 | #12,591 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,737 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,982 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,877 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,422 | 13 | #6,642 |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,503 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,168 | 5 | #13,442 |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,312 | 11 | #7,194 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,423 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,222 | 5 | #12,334 |
| 2003 | 35 | #3,909 | 7 | #9,181 |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,687 | 8 | #8,075 |
| 2001 | 51 | #2,856 | 5 | #11,506 |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,298 | 8 | #7,829 |
| 1999 | 54 | #2,624 | 13 | #5,177 |
| 1998 | 82 | #1,873 | 6 | #9,080 |
| 1997 | 81 | #1,832 | 9 | #6,374 |
| 1996 | 88 | #1,713 | 5 | #9,798 |
| 1995 | 98 | #1,550 | 11 | #5,331 |
| 1994 | 136 | #1,258 | 18 | #3,678 |
| 1993 | 161 | #1,117 | 15 | #4,129 |
| 1992 | 156 | #1,132 | 17 | #3,674 |
| 1991 | 149 | #1,175 | 27 | #2,572 |
| 1990 | 106 | #1,470 | 23 | #2,825 |
| 1989 | 121 | #1,301 | 28 | #2,381 |
| 1988 | 67 | #1,848 | 20 | #2,803 |
| 1987 | 45 | #2,344 | 29 | #2,087 |
| 1986 | 31 | #3,012 | 21 | #2,560 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,917 | 10 | #4,204 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,277 | 6 | #5,983 |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,998 | 16 | #2,848 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,429 | 20 | #2,472 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,423 | 20 | #2,450 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,741 | 15 | #3,029 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,412 | 27 | #1,971 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,542 | 27 | #1,898 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,669 | 22 | #2,168 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,027 | 32 | #1,660 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,305 | 39 | #1,417 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,229 | 32 | #1,564 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,346 | 22 | #1,956 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,699 | 26 | #1,746 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,930 | 22 | #1,956 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,587 | 24 | #1,822 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,249 | 14 | #2,363 |
| 1968 | under 5 | 9 | #2,997 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 6 | #3,774 | |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,719 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,299 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Kelcey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,821 Americans recorded as Kelcey, 75% are girls and 25% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kelcey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kelcey, and how old are they?
2,720 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,821 Americans ever recorded as Kelcey. The median Kelcey alive today is 34 years old; half are between 28 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 2,416 people named Kelcey (1,880 women and girls, 536 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,720 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 16 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 391 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,500 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 724 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 99 |
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 Kelcey born?
The states with the most babies named Kelcey are California, Texas and North Carolina, with 41% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 121 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 108 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 58 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 51 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 46 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 44 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 37 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 35 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 32 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 31 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Kelcey 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 Kelcey?
Kelcey is a less common spelling of Kelsey: SSA has recorded 2,821 Kelcey and 155,738 Kelsey since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 166,435 babies since 1880, Kelcey is the third most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 407 babies recorded by SSA was a Kelcey (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 Kelcey
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 Kelcey and names like it
- Compare Kelcey and KelseyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKelcey peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kelcey since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Kelcey.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kelcey alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.