How rare is the name Keli?

4,280 people in the United States have the first name Keli, about 1 in 70,568. It ranks #4,387 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

KELI

#4,387

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,280
About
1 in 70,568
This common or more
84%
Who bears it

Of the 4,280 people named Keli, 73.6% reported their origin as White, 8.8% as Black and 5.8% as two or more races. 95.7% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Keli peaked in 1979, when 190 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19552025
Peak year
1979
Births that year
190
In 2025*
8 ▼96%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 4,405 babies have been given the name since 1955. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Keli by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,681. The largest share of babies named Keli, 45.8%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1950s#5,87698
1960s#1,976849
1970s#1,6811,303
1980s#1,8971,279
1990s#3,942563
2000s#9,446220
2010s#22,16461
2020s#22,49532
Baby boom 1946–649.1%
Generation X 1965–8045.8%
Millennials 1981–9635.3%
Generation Z 1997–128.4%
2013 and later1.4%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Keli is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Keli has been most common in Oklahoma (5.7×), Texas (2.1×), and Ohio (1.9×), and least common in New York (0.62×).

1,941 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Keli

#4,384 Reta · 4,287#4,386 Chanelle · 4,282#4,388 Leeanne · 4,279#4,389 Ciro · 4,278

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Keli, most common first.

#756 Kelli · 66,659#11,562 Keyli · 1,103#11,762 Keeli · 1,077#12,747 Kela · 967#13,175 Kelia · 923#14,793 Kely · 790#15,023 Kel · 773#17,382 Kell · 636

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