Kelise
Kelise was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,542 among girls’ names; 669 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kelise by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kelise?
#12,542 among girls’ names, 2025
Kelise fell from #6,586 in 2015 to #12,542 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.6 to 4.4 per million.
51 babies in 2007, the peak
Kelise peaked in 2007, when 51 girls were given it, #3,308 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,542 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,688 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,086 | 10.0 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,277 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,842 | 10.4 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,114 | 21.0 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,124 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,827 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,995 | 15.6 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,786 | 16.4 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,586 | 10.6 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,710 | 12.9 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,954 | 16.0 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,774 | 17.0 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,961 | 21.6 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,284 | 11.8 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,984 | 21.2 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,211 | 14.8 |
| 2007 | 51 | #3,308 | 26.5 |
| 2006 | 42 | #3,698 | 22.1 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,885 | 14.6 |
| 2004 | 36 | #3,947 | 19.6 |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,735 | 14.8 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,009 | 10.6 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,761 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,398 | 11.6 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,522 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kelise a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kelise has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kelise: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kelise, and how old are they?
An estimated 663 Americans named Kelise and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 10 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 513 people named Kelise (508 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 577 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 198,073 babies since 1880, Kelise is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 529 babies (1.3%), the sixth 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 Kelise
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 Kelise and names like it
- Compare Kelise and KelseyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKelise peaked in 2007.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kelise since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Kelise.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kelise alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.