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 | ||
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| 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.
Where Kelsea is popular in 2005
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Louisiana#634 · 1 in 3,281
- Tennessee#762 · 1 in 4,439
- Ohio#1,036 · 1 in 8,183
- Pennsylvania#1,284 · 1 in 10,971
- Florida#1,721 · 1 in 14,285
Best ever in a state: #159 in New Hampshire, 1993.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | #634 | 6 | 1 in 3,281 |
| Tennessee | #762 | 7 | 1 in 4,439 |
| Ohio | #1,036 | 7 | 1 in 8,183 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,284 | 5 | 1 in 10,971 |
| Florida | #1,721 | 6 | 1 in 14,285 |
| California | #2,050 | 11 | 1 in 20,947 |
| New York | #2,117 | 5 | 1 in 19,016 |
| Texas | #2,580 | 6 | 1 in 26,767 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2005
Top girls' names in 2005
More about 2005
girls
1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 15,271 of them was named Kelsea, which outranked 91.4% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,639Kaniyah122
- #1,639Marlena122
- #1,639Petra122
- #1,645Kelsea121
- #1,645Ashlin121
- #1,645Breanne121
- #1,645Brynna121
- #1,657Carter120
- #1,657Darcy120
- #1,657Jennie120
Tied with 11 names at #1,645; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.