Kelechi

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Kelechi: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Kelechi: Recorded since 1996, it reached #1,666 in 2007, and it stood at #4,270 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
35times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#1666highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2017

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2683
2000	#3912
2002	#4137
2004	#3197
2008	#2721
2009	#4564
2011	#5785
2012	#4171
2015	#5730
2017	#4063

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 25 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2683 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #1666 among boys in England and Wales, in 2007 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4270 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Kelechi appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 25 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 142 births with the name.

Kelechi across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Kelechi's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2863 (1996)	#1666 (2007)	#4270 (2024)	25 of 29	142 (1996–2024)	13 (2010)
England and Wales · Girls	#2683 (1996)	#2683 (1996)	#4063 (2017)	10 of 22	44 (1996–2017)	8 (2008)

Kelechi by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Kelechi in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	17	4 of 10	4
2000sbusiest	56	9 of 10	6
2010s	46	8 of 10	6
2020s	23	4 of 10	6

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 9 years of it this list covers, averaging 6 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Kelechi appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1666 in England and Wales in 2007.

Kelechi's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#4270	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2320	9	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3990	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2960	6	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3937	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4063	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3478	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3908	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3895	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2954	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4171	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2613	7	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1724	13	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2837	6	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2721	8	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3687	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1666	12	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2870	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2754	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3197	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2304	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2189	6	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2005	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1949	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1850	6	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2419	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2337	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2683	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2863	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 27 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,666, first reached in 2007.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 13 births, registered in England and Wales in 2010.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Kelcie · #1836, 19y
Keleigh · #534, 13y
Kelis · #377, 20y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Chava · #1666, 28y
Frederica · #1666, 23y
Halina · #1666, 23y
Jayna · #1666, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Chava · #1666, 28y
Frederica · #1666, 23y
Halina · #1666, 23y
Jayna · #1666, 26y

Kelechi and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Kelechi without appearing here.

Kelechi moved ahead of

Tayla Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2837 and #2318 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #2954 and #4685.
Ellinor Compare
In 2011 they stood at #5785 and #3185 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #4171 and #5876.
Lynette Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4564 and #4564 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #4171 and #5876.
Helene Compare
In 2016 they stood at #5730 and #4103 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #4063 and #5765.

Moved ahead of Kelechi

Selma Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2683 and #3795 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #3912 and #1389.
Logan Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2683 and #3126 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #3912 and #1594.
Eabha Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3197 and #4598 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #4564 and #2326.
Luca Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2683 and #3795 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #3912 and #1831.

Moved the opposite way to Kelechi

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kelechi went from #2863 to #4270 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kelechi went from #2863 to #4270 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kelechi went from #2863 to #4270 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kelechi went from #2863 to #4270 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Kelechi

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kelechi went from #2863 to #4270 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kelechi went from #2863 to #4270 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kelechi went from #2863 to #4270 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alexander Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kelechi went from #2863 to #4270 and Alexander from #14 to #36.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1666 in England and Wales in 2007. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kelechi

Kelechi at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kelechi across 2 official records

Kelechi by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Kelechi appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Kelechi and the names beside it

Kelechi moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Kelechi

Moved the opposite way to Kelechi

Moved the same way as Kelechi

Kelechi at a glance

Kelechi across 2 official records

Kelechi by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Kelechi appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Kelechi and the names beside it

Kelechi moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Kelechi

Moved the opposite way to Kelechi

Moved the same way as Kelechi