Kelechi — #6569 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kelechi

The Social Security Administration has registered 572 babies named Kelechi between 1979 and 2024, spanning 46 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kelechi currently holds the #6569 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 24 babies received it in a single year. Kelechi is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 261 additional births since 1980.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kelechi performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 170 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Kelechi shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 24 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Kelechi in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kelechi 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 572 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.