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How popular is “Kelly” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kelly” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Kelly” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Kelly” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Kelly” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Kelly” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Kelly” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kelly” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 5 0.000024816 5 -100%
1881 8 0.000041518 8 -100%
1882 13 0.000058682 13 -100%
1883 12 0.000055313 12 -100%
1884 10 0.000041074 10 -100%
1885 15 0.000062278 15 -100%
1886 16 0.000062667 16 -100%
1887 13 0.000052548 13 -100%
1888 10 0.000033392 10 -100%
1889 17 0.000058835 17 -100%
1890 11 0.000036496 11 -100%
1891 9 0.000031395 9 -100%
1892 18 0.000053832 18 -100%
1893 21 0.000064571 21 -100%
1894 12 0.000035431 12 -100%
1895 23 0.000065523 23 -100%
1896 14 0.000039163 14 -100%
1897 15 0.000043233 15 -100%
1898 10 0.000026215 10 -100%
1899 9 0.00002653 9 -100%
1900 33 0.000073291 33 -100%
1901 12 0.000034701 12 -100%
1902 16 0.000041372 16 -100%
1903 21 0.000055089 21 -100%
1904 13 0.000032219 13 -100%
1905 11 0.000025948 11 -100%
1906 20 0.00004668 20 -100%
1907 34 0.000073057 5 29 -71%
1908 30 0.000061394 5 25 -67%
1909 33 0.000064551 7 26 -58%
1910 52 0.00008803 6 46 -77%
1911 46 0.000071398 5 41 -78%
1912 64 0.000064773 7 57 -78%
1913 63 0.000055404 63 -100%
1914 103 0.000072722 11 92 -79%
1915 106 0.000057847 5 101 -91%
1916 99 0.000051178 9 90 -82%
1917 139 0.000069266 8 131 -88%
1918 132 0.000060798 14 118 -79%
1919 152 0.00007203 8 144 -89%
1920 132 0.000058339 11 121 -83%
1921 148 0.000063397 15 133 -80%
1922 154 0.000067274 13 141 -83%
1923 121 0.000052552 10 111 -83%
1924 135 0.000056684 10 125 -85%
1925 136 0.000058286 15 121 -78%
1926 135 0.0000588 12 123 -82%
1927 142 0.000061224 10 132 -86%
1928 139 0.000061479 11 128 -84%
1929 152 0.000069338 11 141 -86%
1930 130 0.000058472 13 117 -80%
1931 138 0.000065577 9 129 -87%
1932 119 0.000056364 14 105 -76%
1933 132 0.000066018 12 120 -82%
1934 155 0.000074633 11 144 -86%
1935 138 0.000066032 13 125 -81%
1936 151 0.000072681 13 138 -83%
1937 140 0.000065707 14 126 -80%
1938 155 0.000070054 18 137 -77%
1939 163 0.000073975 10 153 -88%
1940 166 0.00007209 24 142 -71%
1941 188 0.000077162 28 160 -70%
1942 285 0.000104326 36 249 -75%
1943 311 0.000110184 36 275 -77%
1944 335 0.000124532 60 275 -64%
1945 291 0.000109691 51 240 -65%
1946 334 0.000104528 51 283 -69%
1947 424 0.000117702 73 351 -66%
1948 462 0.000133815 83 379 -64%
1949 627 0.000179925 117 510 -63%
1950 585 0.000166983 97 488 -67%
1951 864 0.000234544 163 701 -62%
1952 1101 0.000289889 296 805 -46%
1953 1071 0.000277919 226 845 -58%
1954 1417 0.000355967 453 964 -36%
1955 1789 0.00044557 539 1250 -40%
1956 2298 0.000557356 830 1468 -28%
1957 3779 0.000899303 1903 1876 1%
1958 6771 0.001637919 4472 2299 32%
1959 8816 0.002120254 6379 2437 45%
1960 11604 0.002793577 8673 2931 49%
1961 12654 0.003054824 9641 3013 52%
1962 14386 0.003564975 11530 2856 60%
1963 15277 0.003859583 12550 2727 64%
1964 14961 0.003848385 12469 2492 67%
1965 15022 0.004143487 12763 2259 70%
1966 16026 0.00461093 13242 2784 65%
1967 16810 0.004951549 13717 3093 63%
1968 20197 0.005978251 17139 3058 70%
1969 19119 0.005501359 16328 2791 71%
1970 17103 0.004742253 14608 2495 71%
1971 14865 0.004330846 12599 2266 70%
1972 12860 0.00409164 10943 1917 70%
1973 12216 0.004049207 10514 1702 72%
1974 12607 0.004147041 10849 1758 72%
1975 13381 0.004431684 11737 1644 75%
1976 13331 0.004393435 11791 1540 77%
1977 19718 0.006207473 18234 1484 85%
1978 18285 0.005761106 16977 1308 86%
1979 16504 0.004960625 15296 1208 85%
1980 14893 0.004323697 13710 1183 84%
1981 13054 0.003773514 11873 1181 82%
1982 13441 0.003831569 12170 1271 81%
1983 12641 0.003649946 11587 1054 83%
1984 12202 0.003497523 11217 985 84%
1985 11923 0.003340609 11031 892 85%
1986 11284 0.003172267 10411 873 85%
1987 10652 0.002954282 9866 786 85%
1988 9656 0.002613231 8916 740 85%
1989 9570 0.002489305 8759 811 83%
1990 8824 0.002232523 8137 687 84%
1991 8157 0.002094081 7514 643 84%
1992 7546 0.001964453 7012 534 86%
1993 6770 0.001795623 6295 475 86%
1994 5831 0.001568463 5446 385 87%
1995 5755 0.001571479 5398 357 88%
1996 5073 0.001390932 4734 339 87%
1997 4348 0.001199201 4064 284 87%
1998 3943 0.00107199 3703 240 88%
1999 3615 0.000978649 3420 195 89%
2000 3278 0.000867218 3076 202 88%
2001 2988 0.000798207 2814 174 88%
2002 3037 0.000812403 2852 185 88%
2003 2882 0.000757959 2736 146 90%
2004 2517 0.000658741 2357 160 87%
2005 2079 0.000540724 1952 127 88%
2006 1750 0.000442345 1611 139 84%
2007 1722 0.00043075 1568 154 82%
2008 1512 0.000384668 1399 113 85%
2009 1391 0.000364119 1251 140 80%
2010 1162 0.000314416 1061 101 83%
2011 1052 0.000287605 944 108 79%
2012 998 0.000272874 892 106 79%
2013 952 0.000261132 849 103 78%
2014 844 0.000227716 739 105 75%
2015 779 0.000210489 675 104 73%
2016 723 0.000197073 605 118 67%
2017 619 0.000173089 504 115 63%
2018 588 0.00016724 485 103 65%
2019 554 0.000159611 447 107 61%
2020 476 0.00014249 366 110 54%
2021 438 0.000129282 324 114 48%
2022 469 0.000138629 347 122 48%
2023 456 0.000137715 362 94 59%
2024 419 0.000125882 310 109 48%