Keli
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · Last seen for boys in 1998 at #9,631
Given to girls 98.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1979 · 190 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,356since 1955
Keli over time
Rank among girls' names. Keli has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 | — | |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | — | |
| 2023 | — | — | ||
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 | — | |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | — | |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | — | |
| 2019 | — | — | ||
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | — | |
| 2017 | — | — | ||
| 2016 | #8,875 | 12 | — | |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | — | |
| 2014 | — | — | ||
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 | — | |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 | — | |
| 2011 | #10,374 | 10 | — | |
| 2010 | #9,790 | 11 | — | |
| 2009 | #10,679 | 10 | — | |
| 2008 | #6,350 | 21 | — | |
| 2007 | #6,552 | 20 | — | |
| 2006 | #8,237 | 14 | — | |
| 2005 | #7,891 | 14 | — | |
| 2004 | #6,216 | 19 | — | |
| 2003 | #4,034 | 33 | — | |
| 2002 | #3,523 | 38 | — | |
| 2001 | #4,209 | 29 | — | |
| 2000 | #5,151 | 22 | — | |
| 1999 | #3,245 | 39 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,831 | 30 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #3,105 | 38 | #9,265 | 5 |
| 1996 | #3,237 | 36 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,588 | 48 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,432 | 52 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,068 | 66 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,855 | 76 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,752 | 82 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,701 | 86 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,496 | 96 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #1,327 | 108 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,240 | 114 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #1,142 | 125 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,185 | 119 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,197 | 109 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,019 | 138 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,083 | 131 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #998 | 146 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #889 | 172 | — | |
| 1979 | #824 | 190 | — | |
| 1978 | #873 | 168 | #5,772 | 5 |
| 1977 | #838 | 178 | #5,123 | 6 |
| 1976 | #980 | 130 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,127 | 103 | #4,309 | 7 |
| 1974 | #1,176 | 95 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,175 | 92 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,084 | 105 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,047 | 115 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,088 | 109 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,042 | 110 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,022 | 103 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,133 | 87 | — | |
| 1966 | #879 | 130 | — | |
| 1965 | #957 | 114 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,383 | 66 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,449 | 59 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,314 | 71 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,387 | 65 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,695 | 44 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,152 | 28 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,939 | 32 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,727 | 18 | — | |
| 1956 | #3,493 | 12 | — | |
| 1955 | #4,376 | 8 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Keli! It came in at #4,376, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2014, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Keli
- 4,376 spots since 2024 (#15,293 → #10,917)
- 2,536 spots since 2020 (#13,453 → #10,917)
- 3,565 spots since 2015 (#14,482 → #10,917)
- Biggest jump: 426 spots in 1965 (#1,383 → #957)
- Biggest drop: 254 spots in 1967 (#879 → #1,133)
- Debuted 1955
- Peaked 1979 at #824 (190 births)
- Births halved by 1990, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 1976–1981
- Highest: 1 in 8,449 girls born in 1979 were named Keli (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 29.5% of all girls named Keli (1,285) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 98 | #1,939 (1958) | #2,937 |
| 1960s | 849 | #879 (1966) | #1,226 |
| 1970s | 1,285 | #824 (1979) | #1,021 |
| 1980s | 1,258 | #889 (1980) | #1,158 |
| 1990s | 553 | #1,701 (1990) | #2,581 |
| 2000s | 220 | #3,523 (2002) | #6,284 |
| 2010s | 61 | #8,875 (2016) | #11,928 |
| 2020s | 32 | #10,917 (2025) | #13,229 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Keli in 1963
Top girls' names in 1963
More about 1963
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1,927,507 girls got a published name in 1963; 1 in 32,670 of them was named Keli, which outranked 81.1% of the 7,661 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,435Ricky60
- #1,435Shanon60
- #1,435Susannah60
- #1,449Keli59
- #1,449Heide59
- #1,449Inga59
- #1,449Karmen59
- #1,464Araceli58
- #1,464Cammy58
- #1,464Cheryll58
Tied with 14 names at #1,449; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.