Baby Girl Names - Kelsey

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The name Kelsey is derived from a surname. The table below indicates the number of times the name Kelsey has been given to baby girls in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby girls in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Kelsey**
Use of the Name Kelsey for Girls During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
127,913	127,913	127,383	45,891	14,547	4,744	2,180

The table below indicates the number of times the name Kelsey has been given to baby girls and baby boys each year, from 1880 through 2004. Kelsey first appeared in the top thousand girl or boy names during 1970, which is the first year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to girls or boys, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Kelsey**
	Used as a Girl Name		Used as a Boy Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1970			943	72
1971			967	71
1972			941	73
1973			951	72
1974			956	73
1975			839	98
1976			834	101
1977	961	144	930	84
1978	888	164	947	84
1979	737	222	928	90
1980	604	307	918	94
1981	436	489	896	99
1982	309	790	862	107
1983	223	1,117	812	116
1984	177	1,554	781	123
1985	168	1,698	813	119
1986	112	2,515	767	140
1987	67	4,573	719	161
1988	64	5,443	647	214
1989	31	9,251	634	248
1990	32	9,488	729	196
1991	26	11,433	745	186
1992	23	11,720	805	169
1993	24	11,366	834	160
1994	29	9,748	825	166
1995	33	8,180	872	156
1996	36	7,652	933	139
1997	57	5,569
1998	56	5,548
1999	72	4,395
2000	87	3,667
2001	99	3,258
2002	118	2,878
2003	130	2,564
2004	148	2,180
Totals:		127,913		3,411

During the last 125 years, parents have used Kelsey as a girl's name about 97% of the time and less frequently (about 2% of the time) as a boy's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Kelsey appears in the top 1,000 girl names only 28 times during the last 125 years.

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Baby Girl Names - Kelsey

Baby Girl Names > Starting With K > Kelsey

Girl Name Kelsey