Kelli

Where Kelli comes from

The dictionaries list Kelli as a given name — a female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kelly — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1945
    First appearance
    #4,556 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1970
    Peak, #115
    3,331 babies named Kelli — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1974
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #168.
  4. 1984
    Kelli Garner born
    American actress
  5. 1996
    Kelli Berglund born
    American actress, dancer, and singer
In the dictionary
  • A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kelly.
Namesakes
  • Kelli Berglund · American actress, dancer, and singer, born 1996
  • Kelli Garner · American actress, born 1984
  • Kelli McCarty · American actress and model, born 1969
  • Kelli Williams · American actress, born 1970
  • Kelli Giddish · American actress, born 1980

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.