girls:
50.7k births since 1913
#571 (90th percentile)
boys:
354 births since 1914
#4232 (8th percentile)
overall:
51.1k births since 1913
#1065 (86th percentile)
The name Kellie is the #1,065 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 51,071 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 86.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #571 (90.0% percentile) for all time with 50,717 births since 1913. For boys, it ranks #4,232 (7.7% percentile) for all time with 354 births since 1914.
Kellie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for girls and 1914 for boys). Birth data for Kellie is available in 95 out of the 111 years between 1913 and 2023 (84 years for girls and 43 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 Kellie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.3% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kellie reached its peak popularity in 1969, achieving the 83.1% percentile (ranked #130) with 1,498 births per million. The name was most common in 1969, with 1,498 births per million (ranked 83.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1979, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kellie ranks #934 for girls (1.4% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 0.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kellie reached its peak popularity in 1969, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #647) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 16 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1993.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kellie".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kellie is pronounced as KEH-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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