Kelis

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Kelis: Recorded since 2000, it reached #377 in 2005, and it stood at #3,533 in 2022.

3registrars recorded it
24times a registrar ranked it
23years from first to last
#377highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2000–2022

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2000	#591
2001	#765
2002	#938
2003	#1083
2004	#389
2005	#625
2006	#835
2007	#1656
2008	#1447
2009	#1467
2010	#1472
2011	#1903
2012	#2215
2013	#3160
2015	#2945
2016	#3214
2017	#3229
2018	#4684
2019	#3151
2022	#3533

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 girls in England and Wales in 20 of the 23 years from 2000 to 2022.

In 2007: #842 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1656 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2000–2022 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2000
First recorded at #591 among girls in England and Wales in 2000 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2005–2006
Highest recorded position: #377 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2005 (recorded 2005–2006).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2022
Most recently recorded at #3533 among girls in England and Wales, in 2022.
England and Wales · Girls

Kelis appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 20 years beginning in 2000, and has registered 451 births with the name.

Kelis across 3 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.

Kelis'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 · Girls	#591 (2000)	#389 (2004)	#3533 (2022)	20 of 23	451 (2000–2022)	98 (2004)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#587 (2005)	#587 (2005)	#842 (2007)	2 of 3	7 (2005–2007)	4 (2005)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#377 (2005)	#377 (2005)	#384 (2006)	2 of 2	6 (2005–2006)	3 (2005)

Kelis by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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 Kelis in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000sbusiest	359	10 of 10	36
2010s	86	9 of 10	10
2020s	6	1 of 10	6

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 36 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2003 and 2004, when recorded births rose by 77, from 21 to 98.

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

Kelis appears in

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2000 to 2022. Highest recorded position: #377 in Northern Ireland in 2005.

Kelis'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
2022	England and Wales	female	#3533	6	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3151	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3229	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3214	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2945	8	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3160	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2215	12	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1903	14	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1472	20	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1467	19	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1447	19	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1656	15	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#835	36	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#625	50	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#389	98	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1083	21	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#938	24	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#765	32	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#591	45	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	female	#384	3	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#377	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#842	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#587	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 2000 and 2022, ranked in 20 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #377, first reached in 2005.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 98 births, registered in England and Wales in 2004.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2005, and 5 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

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.

Kelechi · #1666, 27y
Keleigh · #534, 13y
Kellan · #699, 29y
Kelley · #242, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, 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.

Anastacia · #377, 21y
Myia · #377, 21y
Auryn · #379, 18y
Bryson · #375, 25y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Anastacia · #377, 21y
Elowyn · #377, 15y
Thiago · #377, 23y
Eimantas · #375, 12y

Kelis was ranked #377 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2005. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Kelis 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 Kelis without appearing here.

Kelis moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #4684 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #3151 and #5591.
Shauna Compare
In 2018 they stood at #4684 and #3178 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #3151 and #4001.
Tyler Compare
In 2018 they stood at #4684 and #3518 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #3151 and #4001.

Moved ahead of Kelis

Meabh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3229 and #4063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #4684 and #1711.
Noah Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3229 and #3583 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #4684 and #2499.
Rory Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3151 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3533 and #1452.
Arlo Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3151 and #3541 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3533 and #1849.

Moved the opposite way to Kelis

Ada Compare
Between 2000 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Kelis went from #591 to #3533 while Ada went from #1831 to #36.
Alma Compare
Between 2000 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Kelis went from #591 to #3533 while Alma went from #2416 to #279.
Amalie Compare
Between 2000 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Kelis went from #591 to #3533 while Amalie went from #3912 to #940.
Amelia Compare
Between 2000 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Kelis went from #591 to #3533 while Amelia went from #35 to #2.

Moved the same way as Kelis

Abigail Compare
Between 2000 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Kelis went from #591 to #3533 and Abigail from #19 to #128.
Aimee Compare
Between 2000 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Kelis went from #591 to #3533 and Aimee from #72 to #1326.
Aisling Compare
Between 2000 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Kelis went from #591 to #3533 and Aisling from #443 to #1621.
Alex Compare
Between 2000 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Kelis went from #591 to #3533 and Alex from #186 to #2178.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
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.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2000 to 2022. Highest recorded position: #377 in Northern Ireland in 2005. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Kelis

Kelis at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kelis across 3 official records

Kelis by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Kelis appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Kelis at a glance

Kelis across 3 official records

Kelis by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Kelis

Kelis and the names beside it

Kelis moved ahead of

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