Kelia
Kelia was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,681 among girls’ names; 1,054 Americans have been recorded with it since 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,030 Americans named Kelia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 15 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kelia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kelia?
#7,681 among girls’ names, 2025
Kelia fell from #5,376 in 2015 to #7,681 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.0 to 8.7 per million.
35 babies in 1993, the peak
Kelia peaked in 1993, when 35 girls were given it, #3,245 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 40% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,681 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,370 | 14.8 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,451 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,849 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,282 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,755 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,879 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,897 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,176 | 11.6 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,425 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,376 | 14.0 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,875 | 8.4 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,977 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,020 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,725 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,065 | 10.1 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,798 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,223 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,577 | 8.8 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,718 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,711 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,936 | 9.3 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,871 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,438 | 15.6 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,700 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,397 | 11.6 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,118 | 11.8 |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,777 | 17.5 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,756 | 17.2 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,380 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,720 | 16.5 |
| 1994 | 34 | #3,330 | 19.0 |
| 1993 | 35 | #3,245 | 19.3 |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,721 | 15.7 |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,476 | 16.5 |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,664 | 15.3 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,407 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,737 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,040 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,308 | 8.2 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,357 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,423 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,663 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,083 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,095 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,931 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,795 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,827 | 12.4 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,911 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,785 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,231 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,032 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,234 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,290 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,656 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,862 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,593 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,271 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,153 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,981 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,209 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,072 | 4.2 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,031 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,013 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kelia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kelia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kelia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kelia, and how old are they?
1,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,054 Americans ever recorded as Kelia. The median Kelia alive today is 28 years old; half are between 15 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 923 people named Kelia (917 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 936 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 23 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 136 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 302 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 335 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 231 |
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 762,145 babies since 1880, Kelia is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 1,279 babies (1.1%), the seventh 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 Kelia
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 Kelia and names like it
- Compare Kelia and KellyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKelia peaked in 1993.
- Hawaii’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kelia since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Kelia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kelia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.