Kelsie
Kelsie was given to 82 girls in 2025, #2,248 among girls’ names; 19,936 Americans have been recorded with it since 1908 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 19,300 Americans named Kelsie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 22 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kelsie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kelsie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kelsie is “a unisex given name, variant of Kelsey.”
/ˈkɛlsi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kelsie?
#2,248 among girls’ names, 2025
Kelsie fell from #1,136 in 2015 to #2,248 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.12 to 0.05 per 1,000.
1,228 babies in 1993, the peak
Kelsie peaked in 1993, when 1,228 babies were given it (1,222 girls, #230 among girls’ names). The 82 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 82 | #2,248 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 80 | #2,321 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 112 | #1,810 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 127 | #1,663 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 103 | #1,920 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 104 | #1,866 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 150 | #1,470 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 165 | #1,367 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 176 | #1,324 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 229 | #1,112 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 223 | #1,136 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 225 | #1,125 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 216 | #1,123 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 236 | #1,066 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 275 | #939 | 0.16 |
| 2010 | 315 | #853 | 0.18 |
| 2009 | 326 | #856 | 0.18 |
| 2008 | 373 | #788 | 0.20 |
| 2007 | 398 | #732 | 0.21 |
| 2006 | 360 | #764 | 0.19 |
| 2005 | 351 | #760 | 0.19 |
| 2004 | 428 | #638 | 0.23 |
| 2003 | 460 | #595 | 0.25 |
| 2002 | 510 | #539 | 0.28 |
| 2001 | 525 | #514 | 0.29 |
| 2000 | 641 | #441 | 0.35 |
| 1999 | 677 | #412 | 0.38 |
| 1998 | 828 | #351 | 0.47 |
| 1997 | 860 | #332 | 0.49 |
| 1996 | 1,024 | #283 | 0.58 |
| 1995 | 1,000 | #275 | 0.57 |
| 1994 | 1,089 | #258 | 0.61 |
| 1993 | 1,222 | #230 | 0.68 |
| 1992 | 1,116 | #250 | 0.61 |
| 1991 | 1,038 | #267 | 0.55 |
| 1990 | 856 | #321 | 0.45 |
| 1989 | 760 | #333 | 0.41 |
| 1988 | 426 | #519 | 0.24 |
| 1987 | 345 | #576 | 0.20 |
| 1986 | 231 | #755 | 0.13 |
| 1985 | 156 | #983 | 0.09 |
| 1984 | 134 | #1,053 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 115 | #1,156 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 79 | #1,519 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 75 | #1,572 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 44 | #2,261 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 37 | #2,503 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 29 | #2,824 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,829 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,593 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,707 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,793 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,018 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,643 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,946 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,783 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,864 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,725 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,058 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,256 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,607 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,724 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,005 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,901 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,901 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,547 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,691 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,173 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,402 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 11 | #3,003 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,525 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,070 | 0.01 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,595 | 0.01 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,275 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kelsie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 19,936 Americans recorded as Kelsie, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 82 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kelsie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kelsie, and how old are they?
19,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 19,936 Americans ever recorded as Kelsie. The median Kelsie alive today is 30 years old; half are between 22 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 17,217 people named Kelsie (16,973 women and girls, 244 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 18,852 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 24 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 49 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 274 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 9,500 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,490 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,980 |
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 Kelsie born?
The states with the most babies named Kelsie are Texas, California and New York, with 72% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 12 | #1,862 | 0.8× |
| California | 8 | #2,389 | 0.5× |
| New York | 8 | #1,593 | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,360 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,330 | 0.7× |
Where Kelsie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kelsie is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 2.5 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 Kelsie 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 198,073 babies since 1880, Kelsie is the second most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 82 of their 529 babies (16%), again the second most given.
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 Kelsie
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 Kelsie and names like it
- Compare Kelsie and KelseyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKelsie peaked in 1993.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kelsie since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Kelsie.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kelsie alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.