Kelsea
#3,832 for girls in 2025, 38 births · Last seen for boys in 1989 at #7,905
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1992 · 457 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,035since 1976
Kelsea over time
Rank among girls' names. Kelsea has never cracked the top 500 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 | #3,832 | 38 | — | |
| 2024 | #3,892 | 38 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,640 | 42 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,928 | 57 | — | |
| 2021 | #3,002 | 55 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,394 | 73 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,856 | 58 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,508 | 70 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,097 | 92 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,343 | 80 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,389 | 47 | — | |
| 2014 | #4,103 | 36 | — | |
| 2013 | #4,543 | 31 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,094 | 54 | — | |
| 2011 | #3,222 | 51 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,670 | 67 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,510 | 75 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,318 | 84 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,311 | 83 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,809 | 113 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,645 | 121 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,562 | 126 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,348 | 150 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,345 | 144 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,322 | 145 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,217 | 163 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,143 | 171 | — | |
| 1998 | #905 | 233 | — | |
| 1997 | #728 | 292 | — | |
| 1996 | #652 | 342 | — | |
| 1995 | #642 | 337 | — | |
| 1994 | #567 | 408 | — | |
| 1993 | #530 | 452 | — | |
| 1992 | #520 | 457 | — | |
| 1991 | #614 | 368 | — | |
| 1990 | #780 | 262 | — | |
| 1989 | #844 | 221 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #1,204 | 125 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,545 | 82 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,052 | 52 | — | |
| 1985 | #3,084 | 29 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,915 | 30 | — | |
| 1983 | #3,151 | 26 | — | |
| 1982 | #3,898 | 20 | — | |
| 1981 | #6,323 | 10 | — | |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 | — | |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | — | |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | — | |
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| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kelsea! It came in at #9,284, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1976–1977, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Kelsea
- 60 spots since 2024 (#3,892 → #3,832)
- 1,438 spots since 2020 (#2,394 → #3,832)
- 443 spots since 2015 (#3,389 → #3,832)
- Biggest jump: 360 spots in 1989 (#1,204 → #844)
- Biggest drop: 238 spots in 1999 (#905 → #1,143)
- Debuted 1976
- Peaked 1992 at #520 (457 births)
- Births halved by 1999, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 1989–1998
- Highest: 1 in 4,002 girls born in 1993 were named Kelsea (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 42,297 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #520 in 1992, was only 1 in 4,035 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 55.0% of all girls named Kelsea (3,322) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 17 | #7,649 (1978) | #9,048 |
| 1980s | 603 | #844 (1989) | #3,243 |
| 1990s | 3,322 | #520 (1992) | #708 |
| 2000s | 1,204 | #1,217 (2000) | #1,739 |
| 2010s | 586 | #2,097 (2017) | #3,083 |
| 2020s | 303 | #2,394 (2020) | #3,281 |
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.
Kelsea in 1989
Top girls' names in 1989
Top boys' names in 1989
More about 1989
girls
1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 8,342 of them was named Kelsea, which outranked 94.2% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #839Marcella224
- #842Cherish223
- #843Daphne222
- #844Kelsea221
- #844Fabiola221
- #844Jaqueline221
- #844Julissa221
- #849Bryanna219
- #849Candy219
- #849Delia219
Tied with 4 names at #844; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 400,186 of them was named Kelsea, which outranked 14.4% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,327 names at #7,905; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.