girls:
2.3k births since 1950
#3601 (37th percentile)
boys:
43 births since 1960
#4543 (1st percentile)
overall:
2.3k births since 1950
#5469 (29th percentile)
The name Kelle is the #5,469 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,345 recorded births since 1950. This represents the 29.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 29.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,601 (37.0% percentile) for all time with 2,302 births since 1950. For boys, it ranks #4,543 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 43 births since 1960.
Kelle first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1950 (1950 for girls and 1960 for boys). Birth data for Kelle is available in 52 out of the 54 years between 1950 and 2003 (52 years for girls and 8 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Kelle has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.2% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kelle reached its peak popularity in 1962, achieving the 12.3% percentile (ranked #677) with 49 births per million. The name was most common in 1968, with 55 births per million (ranked 11.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2003.
For boys, Kelle reached its peak popularity in 1964, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #660) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1992.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kelle".
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