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How popular is “Kelsey” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kelsey” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Kelsey” 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 “Kelsey” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kelsey” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kelsey” 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
1891 5 0.000017441 5 -100%
1910 5 0.000008464 5 -100%
1912 10 0.000010121 10 -100%
1913 11 0.000009674 11 -100%
1914 10 0.00000706 10 -100%
1915 9 0.000004912 9 -100%
1916 13 0.00000672 13 -100%
1917 11 0.000005482 11 -100%
1918 15 0.000006909 15 -100%
1919 13 0.00000616 13 -100%
1920 7 0.000003094 7 -100%
1921 15 0.000006425 15 -100%
1922 10 0.000004368 10 -100%
1923 16 0.000006949 16 -100%
1924 14 0.000005878 14 -100%
1925 18 0.000007714 18 -100%
1926 15 0.000006533 15 -100%
1927 10 0.000004312 10 -100%
1928 12 0.000005308 12 -100%
1929 11 0.000005018 11 -100%
1930 16 0.000007197 16 -100%
1931 12 0.000005702 12 -100%
1932 11 0.00000521 11 -100%
1933 10 0.000005001 10 -100%
1934 5 0.000002408 5 -100%
1935 8 0.000003828 8 -100%
1936 8 0.000003851 8 -100%
1937 15 0.00000704 15 -100%
1938 12 0.000005424 12 -100%
1939 10 0.000004538 10 -100%
1940 8 0.000003474 8 -100%
1941 11 0.000004515 11 -100%
1942 19 0.000006955 5 14 -47%
1943 12 0.000004251 12 -100%
1944 12 0.000004461 12 -100%
1945 18 0.000006785 6 12 -33%
1946 23 0.000007198 7 16 -39%
1947 16 0.000004442 8 8 0%
1948 28 0.00000811 9 19 -36%
1949 30 0.000008609 6 24 -60%
1950 19 0.000005423 10 9 5%
1951 26 0.000007058 9 17 -31%
1952 23 0.000006056 10 13 -13%
1953 32 0.000008304 18 14 13%
1954 34 0.000008541 15 19 -12%
1955 29 0.000007223 16 13 10%
1956 34 0.000008246 12 22 -29%
1957 31 0.000007377 12 19 -23%
1958 36 0.000008708 23 13 28%
1959 40 0.00000962 15 25 -25%
1960 34 0.000008185 13 21 -24%
1961 33 0.000007967 18 15 9%
1962 40 0.000009912 19 21 -5%
1963 40 0.000010106 22 18 10%
1964 43 0.000011061 20 23 -7%
1965 33 0.000009102 16 17 -3%
1966 40 0.000011509 17 23 -15%
1967 56 0.000016495 32 24 14%
1968 63 0.000018648 24 39 -24%
1969 83 0.000023883 45 38 8%
1970 120 0.000033273 48 72 -20%
1971 142 0.000041371 71 71 0%
1972 149 0.000047407 76 73 2%
1973 150 0.00004972 77 73 3%
1974 161 0.000052961 88 73 9%
1975 202 0.000066901 105 97 4%
1976 217 0.000071516 116 101 7%
1977 228 0.000071777 144 84 26%
1978 249 0.000078453 164 85 32%
1979 312 0.000093778 222 90 42%
1980 402 0.000116708 308 94 53%
1981 590 0.000170551 490 100 66%
1982 897 0.000255704 791 106 76%
1983 1231 0.000355437 1116 115 81%
1984 1677 0.000480687 1555 122 85%
1985 1821 0.000510211 1700 121 87%
1986 2657 0.000746961 2517 140 89%
1987 4735 0.00131323 4574 161 93%
1988 5665 0.001533135 5452 213 92%
1989 9506 0.002472657 9256 250 95%
1990 9691 0.00245188 9494 197 96%
1991 11620 0.002983109 11434 186 97%
1992 11882 0.003093245 11713 169 97%
1993 11540 0.003060781 11379 161 97%
1994 9914 0.002666736 9748 166 97%
1995 8341 0.002277621 8184 157 96%
1996 7795 0.002137259 7655 140 96%
1997 5672 0.001564366 5573 99 97%
1998 5649 0.001535803 5550 99 96%
1999 4491 0.001215799 4400 91 96%
2000 3731 0.000987062 3669 62 97%
2001 3337 0.000891438 3267 70 96%
2002 2934 0.000784851 2883 51 97%
2003 2611 0.000686686 2569 42 97%
2004 2270 0.000594097 2198 72 94%
2005 1998 0.000519657 1960 38 96%
2006 1945 0.000491635 1898 47 95%
2007 1737 0.000434502 1699 38 96%
2008 1749 0.000444963 1716 33 96%
2009 1545 0.000404432 1521 24 97%
2010 1368 0.000370156 1349 19 97%
2011 1291 0.000352945 1266 25 96%
2012 1241 0.000339315 1214 27 96%
2013 1061 0.00029103 1049 12 98%
2014 1037 0.000279788 1017 20 96%
2015 973 0.000262908 955 18 96%
2016 868 0.000236596 858 10 98%
2017 807 0.000225659 788 19 95%
2018 756 0.000215023 739 17 96%
2019 679 0.000195625 664 15 96%
2020 587 0.000175718 572 15 95%
2021 488 0.00014404 477 11 95%
2022 489 0.00014454 466 23 91%
2023 455 0.000137413 444 11 95%
2024 437 0.00013129 430 7 97%

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