Kellie

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Kellie: Recorded since 1968, it reached #40 in 1978, and it stood at #885 in 2025.

5registrars recorded it
89times a registrar ranked it
58years from first to last
#40highest recorded position
16groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2015

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#470
1997	#545
1998	#737
1999	#663
2000	#833
2001	#1238
2002	#1066
2003	#1383
2004	#1535
2005	#2247
2006	#2137
2007	#1965
2009	#2759
2010	#4688
2011	#4764
2012	#4171
2015	#5730

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 Republic of Ireland in 44 of the 49 years from 1977 to 2025.

In 2015: #896 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #5730 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1968–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1968
First recorded at #71 among girls in New South Wales, Australia in 1968 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New South Wales, Australia · Girls
Highest recorded1968–1984
Highest recorded position: #40 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, in 1978 (recorded 1968–1984).
New South Wales, Australia · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Kellie appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Girls, with 44 ranked years and 984 births registered; the earliest is New South Wales, Australia · Girls, from 1968.

Kellie across 4 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.

Kellie'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
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#391 (1977)	#89 (1995)	#885 (2025)	44 of 49	984 (1977–2025)	63 (1995)
England and Wales · Girls	#470 (1996)	#470 (1996)	#5730 (2015)	17 of 20	322 (1996–2015)	60 (1996)
New South Wales, Australia · Girls	#71 (1968)	#40 (1978)	#77 (1984)	17 of 17	2,769 (1968–1984)	217 (1971)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#194 (1997)	#167 (1999)	#351 (2007)	10 of 11	51 (1997–2007)	10 (1999)

Kellie by decade in Republic of Ireland · 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 Kellie in Republic of Ireland · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1970s	21	2 of 10	11
1980s	177	10 of 10	18
1990sbusiest	430	10 of 10	43
2000s	278	10 of 10	28
2010s	71	10 of 10	7
2020s	7	2 of 10	4

Across Republic of Ireland · Girls, the 1990s were its busiest decade, averaging 43 births a year.

See the names Republic of Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Kellie 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 5 regions, from 1968 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #40 in New South Wales, Australia in 1978.

Kellie'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
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4171	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4764	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4688	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2759	8	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1965	12	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2137	10	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2247	9	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1535	14	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1383	15	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1066	20	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1238	16	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#833	27	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#663	36	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#737	31	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#545	48	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#470	60	High	Verified
1984	New South Wales, Australia	female	#77	104	Insufficient	Not yet available
1983	New South Wales, Australia	female	#79	98	Insufficient	Not yet available
1982	New South Wales, Australia	female	#62	130	Insufficient	Not yet available
1981	New South Wales, Australia	female	#74	107	Insufficient	Not yet available
1980	New South Wales, Australia	female	#63	128	Insufficient	Not yet available
1979	New South Wales, Australia	female	#43	178	Insufficient	Not yet available
1978	New South Wales, Australia	female	#40	176	Insufficient	Not yet available
1977	New South Wales, Australia	female	#45	173	Insufficient	Not yet available
1976	New South Wales, Australia	female	#59	137	Insufficient	Not yet available
1975	New South Wales, Australia	female	#41	206	Insufficient	Not yet available
1974	New South Wales, Australia	female	#49	212	Insufficient	Not yet available
1973	New South Wales, Australia	female	#44	217	Insufficient	Not yet available
1972	New South Wales, Australia	female	#51	205	Insufficient	Not yet available
1971	New South Wales, Australia	female	#51	217	Insufficient	Not yet available
1970	New South Wales, Australia	female	#54	170	Insufficient	Not yet available
1969	New South Wales, Australia	female	#50	186	Insufficient	Not yet available
1968	New South Wales, Australia	female	#71	125	Insufficient	Not yet available
1972	New Zealand	female	#98	66	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#351	4	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	female	#332	4	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#318	4	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	female	#316	4	High	Verified
2002	Northern Ireland	female	#286	4	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	female	#293	4	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	female	#282	4	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	female	#167	10	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	female	#301	4	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	female	#194	9	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#871	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#868	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#536	7	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#374	12	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#435	10	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#393	12	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#356	14	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#410	11	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#383	12	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#202	25	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#197	23	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#195	22	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#170	25	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#113	45	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#141	31	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#91	53	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#132	31	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#123	33	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	female	#116	34	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#110	46	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	female	#92	58	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	female	#89	63	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	female	#114	46	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	female	#121	44	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	female	#144	37	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#167	28	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	female	#128	41	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	female	#126	42	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	female	#150	35	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	female	#192	25	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	female	#220	18	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#242	16	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#298	11	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	female	#476	4	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	female	#280	14	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#423	5	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#370	7	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#273	15	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#391	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
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 5 registrars between 1968 and 2025, ranked in 54 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #40, first reached in 1978.

It held a top-100 place in 20 years, 17 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 217 births, registered in New South Wales, Australia in 1971.

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

A second registrar first ranked it in 1972, and 29 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.

Kelley · #242, 29y
Kelli · #362, 15y
Kelly · #3, 60y
Kelly-Ann · #705, 11y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 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.

Blair · #41, 57y
Jared · #41, 51y
Monique · #39, 51y
Sabrina · #39, 55y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Daire · #40, 60y
Michaela · #40, 57y
Simone · #40, 62y
Bianca · #39, 54y

Kellie was ranked #40 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls in 1978. 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.

Kellie 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 Kellie without appearing here.

Kellie moved ahead of

Jordan Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4764 and #3185 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #4171 and #4838.
Belinda Compare
In 1984 they stood at #298 and #236 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1985 that had become #242 and #456.
Debra Compare
In 1985 they stood at #242 and #233 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1986 that had become #220 and #422.
Dianne Compare
In 1984 they stood at #476 and #438 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1985 that had become #242 and #421.

Moved ahead of Kellie

Diane Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2759 and #3031 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #4688 and #2392.
Linnea Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2759 and #3422 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #4688 and #2392.
Cecilie Compare
In 2010 they stood at #2759 and #5556 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #4764 and #2636.
Pauline Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2759 and #3936 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #4688 and #2589.

Moved the opposite way to Kellie

Alice Compare
Between 1977 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Kellie went from #391 to #885 while Alice went from #141 to #41.
Annie Compare
Between 1977 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Kellie went from #391 to #885 while Annie went from #311 to #33.
Caitlin Compare
Between 1977 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Kellie went from #391 to #885 while Caitlin went from #518 to #247.
Caoimhe Compare
Between 1977 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Kellie went from #391 to #885 while Caoimhe went from #215 to #31.

Moved the same way as Kellie

Audrey Compare
Between 1977 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Kellie went from #391 to #885 and Audrey from #64 to #885.
Eileen Compare
Between 1977 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Kellie went from #391 to #885 and Eileen from #63 to #443.
Ida Compare
Between 1977 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Kellie went from #391 to #885 and Ida from #518 to #885.
Josephine Compare
Between 1977 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Kellie went from #391 to #885 and Josephine from #84 to #483.

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 5 regions, from 1968 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #40 in New South Wales, Australia in 1978. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Kellie

Kellie at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kellie across 4 official records

Kellie by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Kellie appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Kellie

Kellie and the names beside it

Kellie moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Kellie

Moved the opposite way to Kellie

Moved the same way as Kellie

Kellie at a glance

Kellie across 4 official records

Kellie by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Kellie appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Kellie

Kellie and the names beside it

Kellie moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Kellie

Moved the opposite way to Kellie

Moved the same way as Kellie