Kelsey

Where Kelsey comes from

From Old English cēol (“ship”) + siġe (“victory”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Kelsey
  • From a surname
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1942
    First appearance
    #4,622 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1955
    Kelsey Grammer born
    American actor
  3. 1971
    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.
  4. 1991
    Kelsey Asbille born
    American actress
  5. 1992
    Peak, #23
    11,713 babies named Kelsey — more than any year before or since.
  6. 1997
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #57.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
  • A female given name transferred from the surname, popular in the 1990s.
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Kelsey Grammer · American actor, born 1955
  • Kelsey Asbille · American actress, born 1991
  • Kelsey Plum · American basketball player, born 1994
  • Kelsey Serwa · Canadian freestyle skier, born 1989
  • Kelsey Mitchell · Canadian track cyclist, born 1993

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.