Kelii
Kelii was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 261 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kelii by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kelii?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,568, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1990, the peak
Kelii peaked in 1990, when 14 boys were given it, #4,081 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #11,568 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 5 | #13,364 | 2.9 |
| 2015 | 7 | #10,118 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 5 | #13,109 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,595 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 7 | #10,241 | 3.6 |
| 2009 | 6 | #11,758 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 5 | #13,622 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 8 | #9,352 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 8 | #9,167 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 5 | #12,433 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 5 | #12,335 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 6 | #10,071 | 3.1 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,713 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,330 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,523 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,081 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,375 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 12 | #5,036 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,617 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,577 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,059 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 14 | #4,081 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,591 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 12 | #4,052 | 6.3 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,791 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,334 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,461 | 3.8 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,886 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,326 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,458 | 7.0 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,794 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,874 | 4.3 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,127 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,620 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,292 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kelii a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kelii has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kelii: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kelii, and how old are they?
An estimated 250 Americans named Kelii and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 21 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 283 people named Kelii (26 women and girls, 257 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 242 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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.
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 Kelii born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 102 | not ranked | 91.3× |
Where Kelii is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kelii is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1973 it was given 91.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Kelii with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
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 Kelii
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.