Girls' name · since 1988
Kelsei
337 babies named Kelsei in U.S. Social Security records since 1988, with the highest year being 1996. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 337
- total births
- 1988–2025
- years on record
- 1990s
- peak decade
- 35%
- born in that decade
337 girls have been named Kelsei since 1988, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Kelsei has 337 recorded births among girls since 1988, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1988 to 2025.
- 337 total births
- 1988–2025 years on record
- 1990s peak decade
- 35% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kelsei's 337 recorded births place it above 79% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kelsei's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Kelsei's SSA record in two at 2005 and the more recent half accounts for 45% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 55%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1988, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1996 peak of 19, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Kelsei popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1988–2025
- Peak year (1996)
- 19
- Annual births at peak, across 38 years of records
Kelsei by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1990s was Kelsei's strongest decade.
117 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 35% of all-time use.
Kelsei births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s 11
1980s
11 births
- 1990s
1990s
117 births
- 2000s
2000s
103 births
- 2010s
2010s
78 births
- 2020s 28
2020s
28 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 117 births (35% of all-time use).
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- Kelsei's decade-level peak was the 1990s (117 total births); usage has since declined to 28 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1988–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kelsei: Baby Name Since 1988 - 337 Births, Peak 1996." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kelsei. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Kelsei draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.