Kelley
Kelley is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 17 births. Its best rank was 168th, in 1968.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 170.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19681,918 births
- Best rank
- #168in 1968
- Since 1919
- 52,361people given the name
The story in the numbers
46,084 girls have been named Kelley in the United States since 1919, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1968, with 1,918 births — 0.12% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 17 births in 2024, against 1,918 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1974, and the 1960s alone account for 32%. It has spent 44 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 6,277 boys have also been given it, 12% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Kelley | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 6 | |
| 1920s | 5 | |
| 1940s | 81 | |
| 1950s | 2,236 | |
| 1960s | 14,748 | |
| 1970s | 12,745 | |
| 1980s | 9,788 | |
| 1990s | 4,935 | |
| 2000s | 1,111 | |
| 2010s | 329 | |
| 2020s | 100 |
In 1968, its biggest year
Kelley was the 168th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1968 were Lisa, Michelle, Kimberly, Jennifer and Melissa. See all of 1968.
Names that rose and fell with Kelley
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kellypeak 1977
- Bethannepeak 1964
- Bethannpeak 1967
- Tinamariepeak 1968
- Telisapeak 1973
- Jolandapeak 1965
- Kelliepeak 1969
- Deedrapeak 1970
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.