Kelsi

Where Kelsi comes from

Kelsi hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1969
    First appearance
    #6,617 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1989
    Kelsi Fairbrother born
    British handball player
  3. 1991
    Peak, #410
    624 babies named Kelsi — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1994
    Kelsi Dahlia born
    American swimmer
  5. 2000
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #753.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Kelsi Dahlia · American swimmer, born 1994
  • Kelsi Fairbrother · British handball player, born 1989
  • Kelsi Monroe · American Cornographic Actress, born 1992

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.