girls:
6k births since 1976
#2153 (62nd percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1989
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
6k births since 1976
#3512 (55th percentile)
The name Kelsea is the #3,512 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,964 recorded births since 1976. This represents the 54.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 54.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,153 (62.3% percentile) for all time with 5,959 births since 1976. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1989.
Kelsea first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1976 (1976 for girls and 1989 for boys). Birth data for Kelsea is available in 47 out of the 48 years between 1976 and 2023 (47 years for girls and 1 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 Kelsea has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kelsea reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 47.2% percentile (ranked #454) with 228 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 229 births per million (ranked 45.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kelsea ranks #910 for girls (3.9% percentile) with 24 births per million, which is 10.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kelsea reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #753) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kelsea".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Kelsea. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 54.1% confident that Kelsea is pronounced as KEHL-see, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KEHL-see-uh, at 45.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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