Kelis
#4,987 for girls in 2025, 26 births · Last seen for boys in 2000 at #9,112
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2007 · 277 births
- Debut · girls
- 108 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,871since 2000
Kelis over time
Rank among girls' names. Kelis has never cracked the top 900 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 | #4,987 | 26 | — | |
| 2024 | #4,387 | 32 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,329 | 48 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,463 | 73 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,510 | 70 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,748 | 60 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,376 | 75 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,978 | 99 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,573 | 68 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,479 | 73 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,088 | 93 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,892 | 106 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,929 | 103 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,503 | 148 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,728 | 119 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,603 | 135 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,241 | 199 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,359 | 178 | — | |
| 2007 | #968 | 277 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,080 | 235 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,479 | 142 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,175 | 191 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,033 | 88 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,288 | 71 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,740 | 54 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,632 | 108 | #9,112 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kelis! It came in at #1,632, and was given to 108 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2024–2025, when fewer than 33 girls a year got the name.
See more about Kelis
- 600 spots since 2024 (#4,387 → #4,987)
- 2,239 spots since 2020 (#2,748 → #4,987)
- 2,899 spots since 2015 (#2,088 → #4,987)
- Biggest jump: 112 spots in 2007 (#1,080 → #968)
- Biggest drop: 391 spots in 2008 (#968 → #1,359)
- Debuted 2000
- Peaked 2007 at #968 (277 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2007
- Highest: 1 in 6,941 girls born in 2007 were named Kelis (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 61,818 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 53.7% of all girls named Kelis (1,543) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,543 | #968 (2007) | #1,600 |
| 2010s | 1,019 | #1,503 (2012) | #2,015 |
| 2020s | 309 | #2,463 (2022) | #3,404 |
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.
Kelis in 2000
Top girls' names in 2000
Top boys' names in 2000
More about 2000
girls
1,816,036 girls got a published name in 2000; 1 in 16,815 of them was named Kelis, which outranked 90.8% of the 17,660 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,617Salena109
- #1,617Sequoia109
- #1,617Shekinah109
- #1,632Kelis108
- #1,632Amia108
- #1,632Ashlin108
- #1,632Dayanara108
- #1,649Alanis107
- #1,649Ambria107
- #1,649Anai107
Tied with 16 names at #1,632; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,964,001 boys got a published name in 2000; 1 in 327,334 of them was named Kelis, which outranked 24.8% of the 12,119 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #8,209Zuhayr7
- #8,209Zyad7
- #8,209Zykeith7
- #9,112Kelis6
- #9,112Aadam6
- #9,112Aahil6
- #9,112Aarin6
- #10,349Aadarsh5
- #10,349Aaronjacob5
- #10,349Aaronjoshua5
Tied with 1,236 names at #9,112; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.