Kellee
Kellee was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 3,730 Americans have been recorded with it between 1951 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,490 Americans named Kellee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 39 and 57.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kellee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kellee?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,484, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
201 babies in 1978, the peak
Kellee peaked in 1978, when 201 girls were given it, #769 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #16,484 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,034 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,827 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,457 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,592 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,806 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,787 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,873 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,957 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,744 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 13 | #9,282 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,257 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,681 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,854 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,249 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 24 | #4,996 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,279 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,592 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,516 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 40 | #3,143 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,491 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 39 | #3,054 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 36 | #3,175 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 55 | #2,361 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 72 | #1,954 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 61 | #2,201 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 63 | #2,116 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 63 | #2,084 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 75 | #1,793 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 72 | #1,759 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 71 | #1,709 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 75 | #1,592 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 89 | #1,424 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 69 | #1,609 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 107 | #1,204 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 91 | #1,360 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 115 | #1,160 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 154 | #961 | 0.09 |
| 1979 | 179 | #866 | 0.11 |
| 1978 | 201 | #769 | 0.13 |
| 1977 | 135 | #1,001 | 0.09 |
| 1976 | 82 | #1,322 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 72 | #1,443 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 71 | #1,434 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 69 | #1,425 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 60 | #1,549 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 78 | #1,370 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 105 | #1,121 | 0.06 |
| 1969 | 105 | #1,083 | 0.06 |
| 1968 | 112 | #987 | 0.07 |
| 1967 | 83 | #1,167 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 97 | #1,068 | 0.06 |
| 1965 | 68 | #1,330 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 85 | #1,199 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 97 | #1,107 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 81 | #1,227 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 67 | #1,365 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 69 | #1,334 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 56 | #1,442 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 34 | #1,888 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 32 | #1,939 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,245 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,672 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,442 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,979 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,806 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kellee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kellee has been given almost only to girls: 16 boys in 66 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kellee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kellee, and how old are they?
3,490 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 3,730 Americans ever recorded as Kellee. The median Kellee alive today is 47 years old; half are between 39 and 57.
The 2020 Census counted 3,500 people named Kellee (3,434 women and girls, 66 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,554 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 476 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,560 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,130 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 291 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 33 |
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).
Where are babies named Kellee born?
The states with the most babies named Kellee are California, Ohio and Michigan, with 58% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 503 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 189 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 143 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 92 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 86 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 86 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 60 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Indiana | 46 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 39 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Washington | 37 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Kellee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kellee is most over-represented in California: since 1951 it was given 1.2 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 girls’ 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 Kellee with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Kellee?
Kellee is a less common spelling of Kelly: SSA has recorded 3,730 Kellee and 556,365 Kelly since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 750,213 babies since 1880, Kellee is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 598 babies recorded by SSA was a Kellee (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Kellee
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 Kellee and names like it
- Compare Kellee and KellyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKellee peaked in 1978.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kellee since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Kellee.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kellee alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.