Kelsy
Kelsy was given to 16 girls in 2025, #6,979 among girls’ names; 3,270 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,210 Americans named Kelsy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 22 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kelsy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kelsy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kelsy 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 Kelsy?
#6,979 among girls’ names, 2025
Kelsy fell from #5,378 in 2015 to #6,979 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.0 to 10.0 per million.
168 babies in 1992, the peak
Kelsy peaked in 1992, when 168 babies were given it (163 girls, #1,102 among girls’ names). The 16 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,979 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,529 | 14.2 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,832 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,237 | 15.2 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,529 | 11.0 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,490 | 11.1 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,526 | 13.7 |
| 2018 | 36 | #4,036 | 21.2 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,934 | 12.2 |
| 2016 | 33 | #4,389 | 18.6 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,378 | 14.0 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,099 | 15.1 |
| 2013 | 33 | #4,379 | 18.8 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,328 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 45 | #3,523 | 25.6 |
| 2010 | 44 | #3,595 | 24.8 |
| 2009 | 56 | #3,069 | 30.5 |
| 2008 | 62 | #2,874 | 32.8 |
| 2007 | 60 | #2,976 | 31.2 |
| 2006 | 75 | #2,470 | 39.4 |
| 2005 | 66 | #2,587 | 35.7 |
| 2004 | 63 | #2,629 | 34.3 |
| 2003 | 73 | #2,308 | 40.0 |
| 2002 | 81 | #2,105 | 45.1 |
| 2001 | 71 | #2,271 | 39.4 |
| 2000 | 102 | #1,719 | 56.2 |
| 1999 | 124 | #1,415 | 69.9 |
| 1998 | 141 | #1,280 | 79.8 |
| 1997 | 138 | #1,275 | 79.3 |
| 1996 | 142 | #1,231 | 81.0 |
| 1995 | 137 | #1,246 | 77.9 |
| 1994 | 153 | #1,160 | 85.7 |
| 1993 | 145 | #1,196 | 80.2 |
| 1992 | 163 | #1,102 | 88.4 |
| 1991 | 157 | #1,131 | 83.7 |
| 1990 | 151 | #1,138 | 79.5 |
| 1989 | 137 | #1,187 | 74.3 |
| 1988 | 85 | #1,556 | 47.7 |
| 1987 | 88 | #1,475 | 50.6 |
| 1986 | 65 | #1,776 | 37.9 |
| 1985 | 65 | #1,746 | 37.8 |
| 1984 | 49 | #2,067 | 29.1 |
| 1983 | 40 | #2,373 | 23.9 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,842 | 12.4 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,240 | 10.8 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,219 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,235 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,353 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,770 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,294 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,745 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,391 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kelsy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,270 Americans recorded as Kelsy, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 16 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 Kelsy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kelsy, and how old are they?
3,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,270 Americans ever recorded as Kelsy. The median Kelsy alive today is 30 years old; half are between 22 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 3,252 people named Kelsy (3,136 women and girls, 116 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,114 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 84 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,600 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,220 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 310 |
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 Kelsy born?
The states with the most babies named Kelsy are California, Texas and New York, with 45% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 306 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 202 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 99 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Washington | 97 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Florida | 83 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 66 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 65 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 53 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 53 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 40 | not ranked | 0.5× |
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 Kelsy 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 197,991 babies since 1880, Kelsy is the fifth most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 529 babies (3.0%), again the fifth 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 Kelsy
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 Kelsy and names like it
- Compare Kelsy and KelseyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKelsy peaked in 1992.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kelsy since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Kelsy.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kelsy alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.