Kelcy
Kelcy was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,120 among girls’ names; 1,044 Americans have been recorded with it since 1930 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,010 Americans named Kelcy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 26 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kelcy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kelcy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kelcy is “a unisex given name, variant of Kelsey.”
/ˈkɛlsi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kelcy?
#16,120 among girls’ names, 2025
Kelcy fell from #13,747 in 2015 to #16,120 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 3.9 to 3.1 per million.
66 babies in 1993, the peak
Kelcy peaked in 1993, when 66 babies were given it (61 girls, #2,180 among girls’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,120 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,796 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,302 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,479 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,690 | 3.6 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,401 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,292 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,747 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,456 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,589 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 14 | #8,431 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,066 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,756 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,690 | 10.9 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,248 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,803 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,717 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,687 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,360 | 10.3 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,366 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,051 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,941 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,715 | 13.8 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,939 | 12.4 |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,776 | 17.5 |
| 1997 | 34 | #3,400 | 19.5 |
| 1996 | 38 | #3,113 | 21.7 |
| 1995 | 43 | #2,812 | 24.5 |
| 1994 | 59 | #2,235 | 33.0 |
| 1993 | 61 | #2,180 | 33.7 |
| 1992 | 55 | #2,359 | 29.8 |
| 1991 | 55 | #2,326 | 29.3 |
| 1990 | 58 | #2,211 | 30.5 |
| 1989 | 48 | #2,423 | 26.0 |
| 1988 | 32 | #3,118 | 18.0 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,463 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,106 | 11.7 |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,962 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,057 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,366 | 10.2 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,662 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,735 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,157 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,461 | 4.4 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,568 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,910 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,741 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,867 | 4.1 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,081 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,029 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kelcy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,044 Americans recorded as Kelcy, 93% are girls and 7% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kelcy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kelcy, and how old are they?
1,010 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,044 Americans ever recorded as Kelcy. The median Kelcy alive today is 33 years old; half are between 26 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 1,093 people named Kelcy (946 women and girls, 147 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 995 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 9 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 54 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 583 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 299 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 64 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 10,697 babies since 1880, Kelcy is the fourth most given (9.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 58 babies (8.6%), 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 Kelcy
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 Kelcy and names like it
- Compare Kelcy and KelcieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKelcy peaked in 1993.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kelcy since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Kelcy.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kelcy alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.