How rare is the name Kelli?

66,659 people in the United States have the first name Kelli, about 1 in 4,531. It ranks #756 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

KELLI

#756

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
66,659
About
1 in 4,531
This common or more
65.8%
Who bears it

Of the 66,659 people named Kelli, 87% reported their origin as White, 5.7% as Black and 3.1% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Kelli peaked in 1970, when 3,344 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19452025
Peak year
1970
Births that year
3,344
In 2025*
17 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 75,192 babies have been given the name since 1945. 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.

Kelli by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #274. The largest share of babies named Kelli, 46.1%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1940s#9,41819
1950s#1,1721,986
1960s#37216,919
1970s#27421,637
1980s#28121,175
1990s#54810,263
2000s#1,7122,570
2010s#5,745490
2020s#9,612133
Silent Generation 1928–450%
Baby boom 1946–6411.2%
Generation X 1965–8046.1%
Millennials 1981–9636.1%
Generation Z 1997–126.1%
2013 and later0.6%

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 Kelli is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kelli has been most common in Idaho (2×), South Dakota (2×), and Nebraska (2×), and least common in Delaware (0.23×).

72,891 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 Kelli

#754 Krista · 66,762#755 Bella · 66,739#757 Lorenzo · 66,587#758 Quinn · 66,536

Spelled almost the same

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

#85 Kelly · 499,222#973 Kellie · 44,582#4,387 Keli · 4,280#6,791 Kelle · 2,320#11,562 Keyli · 1,103#11,762 Keeli · 1,077#17,382 Kell · 636#20,433 Kella · 506

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