Kelley — #6656 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Kelley

The Social Security Administration has registered 46,084 babies named Kelley between 1919 and 2024, spanning 106 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kelley currently holds the #6656 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1968, when 1,918 babies received it in a single year. Kelley is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 6,277 additional births since 1882.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kelley performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 14,748 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Kelley shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 4,695 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Kelley in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kelley 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 46,084 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.