Kelly

Kelly across 6 registrars

• Kelly did not peak everywhere at once. It reached its best position in New Zealand in 1978 and in Norway in 1997, 19 years later.
• The longest ranked record is in New South Wales, Australia, from 1964 to 1995.

Each panel runs 1964 to 2025, top of the panel is #1 on a log scale, with guide lines at #1 and #100. Filled dot: best rank. Open dot: latest rank. Read from 6 official registrars with at least 10 ranked years. Where a registrar publishes separate lists by sex, the better rank for each year is used. A 'meaningful' move is 10 or more places. Lists start in different years, so an earlier first year shows the list is older, not that the name arrived there first, and a best rank in the first years of a list is not compared as a peak. Ranks show position, and cannot show why a name moved.

Where Kelly is officially recorded

7 official registrars have recorded Kelly, between 1964 and 2025, in 61 of those 62 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Its high point came 46 years earlier in New Zealand (1978) than in Scotland (2024).