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Kelsey

Pronounced /ˈkɛlsi/

Rank in 2024
#10,372
Born in 2024
7
Peak year
1989 · #631
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:430 in 2024 (#668)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 7 boys were named Kelsey, about 1 in every 245,045.
  • It peaked in 1989 with 250 babies, ranked #631.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1891.
  • 5,308 boys 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.

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Greatest: 202 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Silent: 199 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Boomers: 329 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,054 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,504 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen Z: 837 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 178 babies, 0.01 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.