Kelsa
Kelsa was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 183 Americans have been recorded with it between 1977 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kelsa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kelsa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,523, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1992, the peak
Kelsa peaked in 1992, when 14 girls were given it, #6,471 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #16,523 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,331 | 3.1 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,144 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,036 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,294 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,748 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,511 | 4.5 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,854 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,175 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,860 | 4.9 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 5 | #16,803 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,048 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,606 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,327 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,896 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,173 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,831 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,872 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,355 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,471 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,241 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,052 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,534 | 3.3 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,507 | 3.5 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,161 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,354 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kelsa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kelsa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kelsa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kelsa, and how old are they?
An estimated 180 Americans named Kelsa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 21 and 34. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 250 people named Kelsa (245 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 172 born in the U.S. The Census count is 45% 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).
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 Kelsa
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.