girls:
74.9k births since 1945
#451 (92nd percentile)
boys:
301 births since 1963
#4285 (7th percentile)
overall:
75.2k births since 1945
#834 (89th percentile)
The name Kelli is the #834 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 75,160 recorded births since 1945. This represents the 89.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #451 (92.1% percentile) for all time with 74,859 births since 1945. For boys, it ranks #4,285 (6.5% percentile) for all time with 301 births since 1963.
Kelli first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1945 (1945 for girls and 1963 for boys). Birth data for Kelli is available in 77 out of the 79 years between 1945 and 2023 (77 years for girls and 29 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 Kelli has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kelli reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 85.2% percentile (ranked #115) with 1,818 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 1,818 births per million (ranked 85.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1981, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kelli ranks #930 for girls (1.8% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 0.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kelli reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 2.3% percentile (ranked #666) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 11 births per million (ranked 2.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1998.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kelli".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kelli is pronounced as KEH-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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