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Kelsey
Pronounced /ˈkɛlsi/
Rank in 2024
#668
Born in 2024
430
Peak year
1992 · #23
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:7 in 2024 (#10,372)
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 430 girls were named Kelsey, about 1 in every 3,752.
- It peaked in 1992 with 11,713 babies, ranked #23.
- It first shows up in the records in 1942.
- 150,075 girls have been named Kelsey since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Kelsey per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- 3.4Millennials1981–96
- 1.5Gen Z1997–12
- 0.4Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 11 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 262 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,553 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Millennials: 97,058 babies, 3.44 per 1,000. Gen Z: 42,732 babies, 1.47 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 8,459 babies, 0.42 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Old English cēol (“ship”) + ieġ.
- A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
- A female given name transferred from the surname, popular in the 1990s.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈkɛlsi/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Kelsey, CC BY-SA 4.0.