Kellie

Where Kellie comes from

The dictionaries list Kellie 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. 1913
    First appearance
    #3,187 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1937
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1969
    Peak, #130
    2,641 babies named Kellie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1972
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #223.
  5. 1975
    Kellie Martin born
    American actress
  6. 1989
    Kellie Harrington born
    Irish boxer
In the dictionary
  • A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kelly.
Namesakes
  • Kellie Harrington · Irish boxer, born 1989
  • Kellie Martin · American actress, born 1975
  • Kellie Pickler · American country singer, born 1986
  • Kellie Wells · American female Olympic 100m hurdler, born 1982
  • Kellie Waymire · American actress, 1967–2003

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.