girls:
19.4k births since 1908
#1052 (82nd percentile)
boys:
345 births since 1910
#4241 (7th percentile)
overall:
19.8k births since 1908
#1824 (76th percentile)
The name Kelsie is the #1,824 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 19,770 recorded births since 1908. This represents the 76.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 76.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,052 (81.6% percentile) for all time with 19,425 births since 1908. For boys, it ranks #4,241 (7.5% percentile) for all time with 345 births since 1910.
Kelsie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1908 (1908 for girls and 1910 for boys). Birth data for Kelsie is available in 96 out of the 116 years between 1908 and 2023 (72 years for girls and 51 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 Kelsie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.3% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kelsie reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 74.7% percentile (ranked #220) with 620 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 620 births per million (ranked 74.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1996, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kelsie ranks #841 for girls (11.2% percentile) with 63 births per million, which is 10.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kelsie reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #538) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 24 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2000.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kelsie".
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