Kelsey
Kelsey is ranked 671st among girls in 2024 (430 births). Its best rank was 23rd, in 1992.
- Rank in 2024
- #671down 7 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 4300.03% of girls
- Peak year
- 199211,713 births
- Best rank
- #23in 1992
- Since 1942
- 155,383people given the name
The story in the numbers
150,075 girls have been named Kelsey in the United States since 1942, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1992, with 11,713 births — 0.64% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 430 births in 2024, against 11,713 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1994, and the 1990s alone account for 57%. It has spent 48 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 15 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 5,308 boys have also been given it, 3.4% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Kelsey | |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 41 | |
| 1950s | 140 | |
| 1960s | 226 | |
| 1970s | 1,111 | |
| 1980s | 27,759 | |
| 1990s | 85,130 | |
| 2000s | 23,380 | |
| 2010s | 9,899 | |
| 2020s | 2,389 |
In 1992, its biggest year
Kelsey was the 23rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1992 were Ashley, Jessica, Amanda, Brittany and Sarah. See all of 1992.
Names that rose and fell with Kelsey
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kelceypeak 1993
- Andreinapeak 1989
- Chelseepeak 1992
- Jourdanpeak 1990
- Kelcypeak 1993
- Anjelicapeak 1991
- Kelciepeak 1993
- Halipeak 1993
Other spellings in the data
- Chelsey31,478 ever
- Kelsie19,507 ever
- Chelsie13,837 ever
- Kelsi10,113 ever
- Chelsi4,043 ever
- Chelsy3,303 ever
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.