Kele
Kele was last recorded in 2006, when 7 babies were given it; 164 Americans have been recorded with it between 1966 and 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kele by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kele?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,853, in 2001; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1999, the peak
Kele peaked in 1999, when 18 babies were given it (11 boys, #5,857 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 7 | #14,343 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 12 | #5,853 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 10 | #6,585 | |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,999 | 11 | #5,857 |
| 1998 | under 5 | 8 | #7,220 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 8 | #6,956 | |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,163 | 8 | #6,817 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,105 | 6 | #8,360 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,017 | 6 | #8,294 |
| 1993 | under 5 | 8 | #6,549 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | under 5 | 6 | #7,775 | |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,782 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 6 | #6,026 | |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,524 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,352 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,664 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,016 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,902 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,055 | 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 Kele a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 164 Americans recorded as Kele, 46% are girls and 54% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kele: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kele, and how old are they?
An estimated 158 Americans named Kele and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 27 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 361 people named Kele (198 women and girls, 163 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 160 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Kele rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kele
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.