Kelci
Kelci was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,068 among girls’ names; 2,429 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,390 Americans named Kelci and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 23 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kelci by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kelci?
#14,068 among girls’ names, 2025
Kelci fell from #5,935 in 2015 to #14,068 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.3 to 3.7 per million.
154 babies in 1993, the peak
Kelci peaked in 1993, when 154 girls were given it, #1,148 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,068 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,647 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,961 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,910 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,696 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,200 | 11.8 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,368 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,946 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,080 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,200 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #5,935 | 12.3 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,152 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,403 | 14.2 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,176 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,414 | 18.8 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,801 | 16.9 |
| 2009 | 42 | #3,770 | 22.9 |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,675 | 23.3 |
| 2007 | 43 | #3,750 | 22.4 |
| 2006 | 44 | #3,590 | 23.1 |
| 2005 | 55 | #2,946 | 29.8 |
| 2004 | 61 | #2,692 | 33.2 |
| 2003 | 77 | #2,235 | 42.1 |
| 2002 | 74 | #2,235 | 41.2 |
| 2001 | 86 | #1,983 | 47.8 |
| 2000 | 63 | #2,441 | 34.7 |
| 1999 | 73 | #2,100 | 41.2 |
| 1998 | 86 | #1,808 | 48.7 |
| 1997 | 111 | #1,480 | 63.8 |
| 1996 | 125 | #1,351 | 71.3 |
| 1995 | 121 | #1,362 | 68.8 |
| 1994 | 125 | #1,339 | 70.0 |
| 1993 | 154 | #1,148 | 85.1 |
| 1992 | 146 | #1,198 | 79.2 |
| 1991 | 140 | #1,223 | 74.7 |
| 1990 | 127 | #1,283 | 66.9 |
| 1989 | 105 | #1,414 | 57.0 |
| 1988 | 76 | #1,692 | 42.7 |
| 1987 | 48 | #2,250 | 27.6 |
| 1986 | 28 | #3,227 | 16.3 |
| 1985 | 26 | #3,366 | 15.1 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,066 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,618 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,157 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,714 | 7.2 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,742 | 4.8 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,733 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,968 | 3.9 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,467 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kelci a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kelci has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kelci: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kelci, and how old are they?
2,390 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,429 Americans ever recorded as Kelci. The median Kelci alive today is 30 years old; half are between 23 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 2,086 people named Kelci (2,076 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,342 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 29 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,240 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 938 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 180 |
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 Kelci born?
The states with the most babies named Kelci are Texas, California and Pennsylvania, with 44% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 196 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 87 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 72 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 64 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 41 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 37 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 35 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 33 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Kansas | 28 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Missouri | 26 | not ranked | 0.5× |
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 Kelci 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 Kelci?
Kelci is a less common spelling of Kelsey: SSA has recorded 2,429 Kelci and 155,738 Kelsey since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 166,535 babies since 1880, Kelci is the fourth most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 407 babies (1.5%), 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 Kelci
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 Kelci and names like it
- Compare Kelci and KelseyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKelci peaked in 1993.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kelci since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Kelci.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kelci alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.