Gender-neutral · #851 in 2025
Kelly
Kelly: popularity and trends since 1880
- Rank
- #851
- Born 2025
- 319
- Peak year
- 1977
Popularity, 1880–2025
per 100,000 girls born
Recent trend
Kelly has been falling: its share of girls born has shrunk over the last 10 years. It now stands at 2% of its 1977 peak.
Boy or girl?
Over the last 10 years, 79% of children named Kelly were recorded as girls and 21% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.
Sounds good with
Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.