Kely — girls' name

What the Data Says About Kely

The Social Security Administration has registered 242 babies named Kely between 1967 and 2019, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kely currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 12 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kely performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 86 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Kely shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kely in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kely in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 242 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.