Kellie
Kellie was given to 19 girls in 2025, #6,221 among girls’ names; 51,108 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 47,700 Americans named Kellie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 38 and 57.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kellie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kellie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kellie is “a female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kelly.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kellie?
#6,221 among girls’ names, 2025
Kellie fell from #3,508 in 2015 to #6,221 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 25.2 to 11.8 per million.
2,659 babies in 1969, the peak
Kellie peaked in 1969, when 2,659 babies were given it (2,641 girls, #130 among girls’ names). The 19 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,221 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,083 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,541 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,096 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,897 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,606 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 27 | #4,974 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,887 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 34 | #4,262 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 49 | #3,305 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 45 | #3,508 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 66 | #2,664 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 57 | #2,952 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 70 | #2,583 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 65 | #2,709 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 88 | #2,213 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 103 | #2,010 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 132 | #1,694 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 140 | #1,600 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 174 | #1,337 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 160 | #1,360 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 220 | #1,054 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 254 | #926 | 0.14 |
| 2002 | 303 | #777 | 0.17 |
| 2001 | 294 | #802 | 0.16 |
| 2000 | 386 | #647 | 0.21 |
| 1999 | 477 | #531 | 0.27 |
| 1998 | 465 | #541 | 0.26 |
| 1997 | 586 | #434 | 0.34 |
| 1996 | 686 | #387 | 0.39 |
| 1995 | 788 | #336 | 0.45 |
| 1994 | 828 | #326 | 0.46 |
| 1993 | 959 | #286 | 0.53 |
| 1992 | 1,069 | #262 | 0.58 |
| 1991 | 1,143 | #244 | 0.61 |
| 1990 | 1,087 | #264 | 0.57 |
| 1989 | 1,044 | #258 | 0.57 |
| 1988 | 1,122 | #236 | 0.63 |
| 1987 | 1,153 | #233 | 0.66 |
| 1986 | 1,077 | #241 | 0.63 |
| 1985 | 1,072 | #241 | 0.62 |
| 1984 | 1,138 | #226 | 0.68 |
| 1983 | 1,072 | #231 | 0.64 |
| 1982 | 1,194 | #218 | 0.71 |
| 1981 | 1,177 | #222 | 0.71 |
| 1980 | 1,260 | #206 | 0.76 |
| 1979 | 1,326 | #200 | 0.83 |
| 1978 | 1,445 | #180 | 0.94 |
| 1977 | 1,502 | #182 | 1.0 |
| 1976 | 1,174 | #209 | 0.80 |
| 1975 | 1,171 | #210 | 0.80 |
| 1974 | 1,089 | #233 | 0.74 |
| 1973 | 1,153 | #219 | 0.79 |
| 1972 | 1,254 | #224 | 0.82 |
| 1971 | 1,425 | #211 | 0.86 |
| 1970 | 2,130 | #158 | 1.2 |
| 1969 | 2,641 | #130 | 1.6 |
| 1968 | 1,805 | #179 | 1.1 |
| 1967 | 1,161 | #245 | 0.70 |
| 1966 | 1,197 | #243 | 0.71 |
| 1965 | 1,166 | #251 | 0.66 |
| 1964 | 1,342 | #238 | 0.71 |
| 1963 | 1,120 | #266 | 0.58 |
| 1962 | 1,025 | #282 | 0.52 |
| 1961 | 880 | #313 | 0.44 |
| 1960 | 785 | #335 | 0.39 |
| 1959 | 596 | #389 | 0.29 |
| 1958 | 467 | #439 | 0.23 |
| 1957 | 204 | #698 | 0.10 |
| 1956 | 123 | #905 | 0.06 |
| 1955 | 75 | #1,152 | 0.04 |
| 1954 | 69 | #1,209 | 0.04 |
| 1953 | 49 | #1,400 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 36 | #1,622 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 23 | #2,083 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,552 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,673 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,948 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,575 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,330 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,834 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,536 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,587 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,216 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,475 | under 0.01 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,433 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kellie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kellie has been given almost only to girls: 354 boys in 97 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kellie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kellie, and how old are they?
47,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 51,108 Americans ever recorded as Kellie. The median Kellie alive today is 48 years old; half are between 38 and 57.
The 2020 Census counted 44,582 people named Kellie (44,382 women and girls, 200 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 48,527 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 13 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5,850 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 21,300 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 16,200 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,870 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 442 |
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 Kellie born?
The states with the most babies named Kellie are California, Texas and Michigan, with 24% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5,518 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 3,138 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 2,819 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 2,778 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 2,267 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 2,134 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 1,881 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 1,632 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Massachusetts | 1,488 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 1,485 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Kellie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kellie is most over-represented in Utah: since 1913 it was given 1.7 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 Kellie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 747,877 babies since 1880, Kellie is the fourth most given (6.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 471 babies (4.0%), the third 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 Kellie
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 Kellie and names like it
- Compare Kellie and KellyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sKellie peaked in 1969.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kellie since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Kellie: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1969The year the most babies were named Kellie.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kellie alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.