How rare is the name Kelsie?

17,217 people in the United States have the first name Kelsie, about 1 in 17,543. It ranks #1,754 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

KELSIE

#1,754

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
17,217
About
1 in 17,543
This common or more
76.8%
Who bears it

Of the 17,217 people named Kelsie, 81.5% reported their origin as White, 6.7% as Black and 5.3% as Hispanic or Latino. 98.6% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Kelsie peaked in 1993, when 1,228 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19082025
Peak year
1993
Births that year
1,228
In 2025*
82 ▼93%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 19,936 babies have been given the name since 1908. 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.

Kelsie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #582. The largest share of babies named Kelsie, 48.8%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1900s#4,9315
1910s#4,71179
1920s#5,62691
1930s#6,12959
1940s#6,70954
1950s#9,69029
1960s#8,75754
1970s#5,112215
1980s#1,2942,389
1990s#5829,766
2000s#1,1834,377
2010s#2,0572,210
2020s#3,532608
Greatest Generation 1901–270.8%
Silent Generation 1928–450.5%
Baby boom 1946–640.4%
Generation X 1965–801.5%
Millennials 1981–9648.8%
Generation Z 1997–1238%
2013 and later10%

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 Kelsie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kelsie has been most common in Utah (4.2×), Idaho (3.1×), and Oregon (2.1×), and least common in Connecticut (0.33×).

17,435 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 Kelsie

#1,752 Milan · 17,228#1,753 Vance · 17,227#1,755 Katlyn · 17,216#1,756 Angelia · 17,186

Spelled almost the same

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

#2,656 Kelsi · 8,881#5,722 Kelcie · 2,934#9,318 Kelsee · 1,498#22,003 Kellsie · 456#38,539 Kelse · 199#46,015 Kelsye · 146

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