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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 0.000055314 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 0.000072029 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 0.000058801 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 0.000065578 9 129 -87%
1932 119 0.000056364 14 105 -76%
1933 132 0.000066019 12 120 -82%
1934 155 0.000074634 11 144 -86%
1935 138 0.000066033 13 125 -81%
1936 151 0.000072681 13 138 -83%
1937 140 0.000065708 14 126 -80%
1938 155 0.000070054 18 137 -77%
1939 163 0.000073976 10 153 -88%
1940 166 0.000072091 24 142 -71%
1941 188 0.000077164 28 160 -70%
1942 285 0.000104328 36 249 -75%
1943 311 0.000110184 36 275 -77%
1944 335 0.000124533 60 275 -64%
1945 291 0.000109693 51 240 -65%
1946 334 0.000104529 51 283 -69%
1947 424 0.000117704 73 351 -66%
1948 462 0.000133816 83 379 -64%
1949 627 0.000179927 117 510 -63%
1950 585 0.000166982 97 488 -67%
1951 865 0.000234817 164 701 -62%
1952 1101 0.000289889 296 805 -46%
1953 1071 0.000277921 226 845 -58%
1954 1417 0.000355969 453 964 -36%
1955 1788 0.000445326 539 1249 -40%
1956 2299 0.000557599 830 1469 -28%
1957 3779 0.00089932 1903 1876 1%
1958 6773 0.001638266 4473 2300 32%
1959 8812 0.00211994 6378 2434 45%
1960 11606 0.002793987 8674 2932 49%
1961 12654 0.003055081 9643 3011 52%
1962 14385 0.003565214 11529 2856 60%
1963 15276 0.003859201 12548 2728 64%
1964 14963 0.00384894 12471 2492 67%
1965 15020 0.004142899 12761 2259 70%
1966 16027 0.004611329 13243 2784 65%
1967 16810 0.00495157 13717 3093 63%
1968 20198 0.005978635 17140 3058 70%
1969 19118 0.00550103 16327 2791 71%
1970 17102 0.004741991 14607 2495 71%
1971 14865 0.004330935 12599 2266 70%
1972 12859 0.004091291 10943 1916 70%
1973 12217 0.004049586 10514 1703 72%
1974 12606 0.004146711 10849 1757 72%
1975 13381 0.004431715 11737 1644 75%
1976 13332 0.004393747 11791 1541 77%
1977 19718 0.006207633 18234 1484 85%
1978 18286 0.005761511 16978 1308 86%
1979 16504 0.004960683 15296 1208 85%
1980 14893 0.004323717 13710 1183 84%
1981 13054 0.003773559 11873 1181 82%
1982 13441 0.003831592 12170 1271 81%
1983 12641 0.003650012 11587 1054 83%
1984 12203 0.003497909 11218 985 84%
1985 11923 0.003340735 11031 892 85%
1986 11283 0.003172103 10411 872 85%
1987 10652 0.002954383 9866 786 85%
1988 9655 0.002613089 8915 740 85%
1989 9571 0.002489639 8760 811 83%
1990 8823 0.002232401 8136 687 84%
1991 8157 0.002094176 7514 643 84%
1992 7546 0.001964552 7012 534 86%
1993 6770 0.001795692 6295 475 86%
1994 5830 0.001568266 5445 385 87%
1995 5755 0.001571537 5398 357 88%
1996 5073 0.00139099 4734 339 87%
1997 4347 0.001198963 4063 284 87%
1998 3943 0.001072024 3703 240 88%
1999 3615 0.000978681 3420 195 89%
2000 3278 0.000867244 3076 202 88%
2001 2988 0.000798233 2814 174 88%
2002 3037 0.000812438 2852 185 88%
2003 2882 0.000758019 2736 146 90%
2004 2517 0.000658791 2357 160 87%
2005 2079 0.000540766 1952 127 88%
2006 1750 0.000442389 1611 139 84%
2007 1722 0.000430795 1568 154 82%
2008 1512 0.000384723 1399 113 85%
2009 1391 0.000364184 1251 140 80%
2010 1162 0.000314467 1061 101 83%
2011 1052 0.000287655 944 108 79%
2012 998 0.000272928 892 106 79%
2013 951 0.00026092 848 103 78%
2014 844 0.000227775 739 105 75%
2015 779 0.000210549 675 104 73%
2016 722 0.000196863 604 118 67%
2017 618 0.000172881 503 115 63%
2018 588 0.000167324 485 103 65%
2019 553 0.000159422 446 107 61%
2020 476 0.000142607 366 110 54%
2021 438 0.000129406 324 114 48%
2022 469 0.000138814 347 122 48%
2023 455 0.000137994 362 93 59%