How rare is the name Kelsi?

8,881 people in the United States have the first name Kelsi, about 1 in 34,009. It ranks #2,656 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

KELSI

#2,656

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,881
About
1 in 34,009
This common or more
80.5%
Who bears it

Of the 8,881 people named Kelsi, 80.1% reported their origin as White, 7.9% as Black and 5.2% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Kelsi peaked in 1991, when 624 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19692025
Peak year
1991
Births that year
624
In 2025*
37 ▼94%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 10,151 babies have been given the name since 1969. 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.

Kelsi by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #937. The largest share of babies named Kelsi, 51.4%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1960s#16,2136
1970s#6,213158
1980s#1,7131,511
1990s#9375,054
2000s#1,9862,101
2010s#3,4931,023
2020s#5,661298
Generation X 1965–802%
Millennials 1981–9651.4%
Generation Z 1997–1237.2%
2013 and later9.5%

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 Kelsi is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kelsi has been most common in Utah (2.6×), Kansas (2.3×), and Oklahoma (2.1×), and least common in New York (0.32×).

7,800 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 Kelsi

#2,654 Braylen · 8,916#2,655 Dimitri · 8,895#2,657 Ajay · 8,870#2,657 Lili · 8,870

Spelled almost the same

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

#1,754 Kelsie · 17,217#5,320 Kelsy · 3,252#7,340 Kelci · 2,086#29,411 Kelso · 301#31,546 Kelsei · 271#33,205 Kelsa · 250#38,539 Kelse · 199

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