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

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Peak · girls
2007 · 277 births
Debut · girls
108 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,871
since 2000

Kelis over time

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Rank among girls' names. Kelis has never cracked the top 900 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202008peak #968, 2007girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#4,98726
2024#4,38732
2023#3,32948
2022#2,46373
2021#2,51070
2020#2,74860
2019#2,37675
2018#1,97899
2017#2,57368
2016#2,47973
2015#2,08893
2014#1,892106
2013#1,929103
2012#1,503148
2011#1,728119
2010#1,603135
2009#1,241199
2008#1,359178
2007#968277
2006#1,080235
2005#1,479142
2004#1,175191
2003#2,03388
2002#2,28871
2001#2,74054
2000#1,632108#9,1126
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First appearance
2000

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
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 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)
Rise & fade · girls
7 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 2000
  • Peaked 2007 at #968 (277 births)
  • Births halved by 2010, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2007
Share of babies · girls
1 in 6,941
  • 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%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 53.7% of all girls named Kelis (1,543) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
2000s1,543#968 (2007)#1,600
2010s1,019#1,503 (2012)#2,015
2020s309#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 2008

girls
#1,359
178 births · 1 in 10,623 girls

Top girls' names in 2008

  1. #1Emma18,830
  2. #2Isabella18,629
  3. #3Emily17,448
  4. #4Olivia17,088
  5. #5Ava17,051
  6. #6Madison17,047
  7. #7Sophia16,091
  8. #8Abigail15,088
  9. #9Elizabeth12,027
  10. #10Chloe11,836
  11. #1,359Kelis178
More about 2008

girls

1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 10,623 of them was named Kelis, which outranked 93.4% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Kelis
  1. #1,354Jaquelin179
  2. #1,354Kailani179
  3. #1,354Kameron179
  4. #1,359Kelis178
  5. #1,359Adilene178
  6. #1,359Alli178
  7. #1,359Bayleigh178
  8. #1,366Jaela177
  9. #1,366Julieta177
  10. #1,368Aida176

Tied with 6 names at #1,359; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2007
Risers
  1. 9,375Dayami#10,129#754
  2. 4,524Allisson#4,944#420
  3. 1,019Alisson#1,804#785
  4. 851Milagros#1,579#728
  5. 807Mareli#1,530#723
Fallers
  1. 391Kelis#968#1,359
  2. 390Joselin#755#1,145
  3. 378Tyra#947#1,325
  4. 363Montana#932#1,295
  5. 337Allyssa#988#1,325

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2008