Kelby
Kelby is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 14 births. Its best rank was 746th, in 1991.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 140.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1991187 births
- Best rank
- #746in 1991
- Since 1948
- 5,550people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,001 boys have been named Kelby in the United States since 1948, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1991, with 187 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1994, and the 1990s alone account for 34%. It has spent 8 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Kelby is used for both sexes: 28% of its bearers are girls (1,549), most of them born around 1991.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1991, its biggest year
Kelby was the 746th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1991 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Andrew. See all of 1991.
Names that rose and fell with Kelby
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Delvonpeak 1994
- Kendalepeak 1996
- Treverpeak 1994
- Deshonpeak 1997
- Marquispeak 1990
- Nigelpeak 1994
- Jamalpeak 1993
- Trevorpeak 1998
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.