How popular is “Kelis” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Kelis” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Kelis” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
2000	114	0.000030159	108	6	89%
2001	54	0.000014425	54		100%
2002	71	0.000018993	71		100%
2003	88	0.000023144	88		100%
2004	191	0.000049988	191		100%
2005	142	0.000036933	142		100%
2006	235	0.000059401	235		100%
2007	277	0.00006929	277		100%
2008	178	0.000045285	178		100%
2009	199	0.000052092	199		100%
2010	135	0.000036529	135		100%
2011	119	0.000032533	119		100%
2012	148	0.000040466	148		100%
2013	103	0.000028253	103		100%
2014	106	0.000028599	106		100%
2015	93	0.000025129	93		100%
2016	73	0.000019898	73		100%
2017	68	0.000019015	68		100%
2018	99	0.000028158	99		100%
2019	75	0.000021608	75		100%
2020	60	0.000017961	60		100%
2021	70	0.000020661	70		100%
2022	73	0.000021578	73		100%
2023	48	0.000014496	48		100%
2024	32	0.000009614	32		100%

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