Kelli

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Kelli is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is the 78th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kelly.

rarermore common
  • AUAustralia1 in 374◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 423
  • CACanada1 in 426

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈596K ●

across 8 countries

#298 ●

of 16M given names

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
604 ●

12M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 760 ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

KellyLatin · English●6.2M records
КеллиCyrillic · Russian●384 records
켈리Hangul · Korean●3 records
เคลลยThai · Thai●1 records
ᲙელლიGeorgian · Georgian●1 records
ՔելլիArmenian · Armenian●0 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kelly in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 18 more, Kelley in SG Singapore, RU Russia, IL Israel and 1 more, Kellie in NZ New Zealand, IE Ireland and Keli in IN India.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kelly.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Kelli is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#78495,763678K rec.—81Kelly275
US United States#69437,5209.8M rec.1 in 760438KKelly604
AU Australia#72304,420351K rec.—104Kelly307
CA Canada#64192,960249K rec.—16Kelly262
BR Brazil—118,991△656 rec.1 in 1.8K119KKelly8
IN India—44,00425K rec.—2.9KKeli91
IT Italy#24942,85060K rec.—1Kelly107
FR France—25,255△78 rec.1 in 2.7K25K—12
DE Germany#61522,51431K rec.—listedKelly157
PH Philippines—20,97824K rec.——Kelly99
VE Venezuela—16,47711 rec.—1.4KKelly5
EC Ecuador—12,874△838 rec.1 in 1.3K13KKëlly56

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English652K67%
  • Portuguese190K19%
  • 53K5%
  • Spanish24K2%
  • German6K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English651,80467%
Portuguese190,39019%
53,0825%
Spanish24,0852%
German5,9841%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Kelli is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name224K records spelled Kelli10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Colombia, France

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, French

    Also written Kėllï, Këllï, Kellĭ, Kéllǐ, Këllî

  • a separate given name59K records spelled Kelli2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Also written Kélli

  • Hebrew given name3.7K records spelled Kelli17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Israel, Egypt, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hebrew, Arabic, Amharic

    Also written קלי, Kelly, Kelley, קאלי, Kalia

  • Greek given name1.5K records spelled Kelli8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Kelly, Keli, Κέλλυ, Κελλυ, Κελι

50 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Kelli is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Finnish, penis, dick

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In kw, grove

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

01K2K3K4K19601980200020203.3K · 1970

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Kelli in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1945–2025
Yearrecords
19455
19475
19499
19508
195118
195230
195359
195462
195594
1956132
1957288
1958533
1959762
1960955
19611,106
19621,317
19631,385
19641,650
19651,538
19661,730
19671,810
19682,321
19693,055
19703,331
19712,381
19721,899
19731,725
19741,606
19751,768
19761,820
19772,466
19782,326
19792,218
19802,486
19812,280
19822,373
19832,162
19841,981
19852,059
19862,000
19872,110
19881,864
19891,734
19901,605
19911,498
19921,336
19931,229
19941,063
1995923
1996792
1997670
1998572
1999549
2000483
2001448
2002368
2003320
2004260
2005194
2006152
2007129
2008118
200998
201076
201167
201266
201342
201452
201541
201640
201730
201837
201939
202032
202123
202224
202322
202415
202517

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 79 years between 1945–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Kelly McGillis, b. 1957Kelly Preston, b. 1962Kelly Hu, b. 1968Kelly Holmes, b. 1970Kelly Macdonald, b. 1976Kelly Reilly, b. 1977Kelly Brook, b. 1979Jennifer Tisdale, b. 1981Kelly Rohrbach, b. 1990Kelli Berglund, b. 1996
  • Kelly McGillisb. 1957USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
  • Kelly Prestonb. 1962USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1962–2020)
  • Kelly Hub. 1968USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
  • Kelly Holmesb. 1970GBnot in their usual nameBritish middle distance athlete and Olympic gold medallist
  • Kelly Macdonaldb. 1976GBnot in their usual nameScottish actress
  • Kelly Reillyb. 1977GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress
  • Kelly Brookb. 1979GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress and model
  • Jennifer Tisdaleb. 1981USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
  • Kelly Rohrbachb. 1990USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress, model, and professional golfer
  • Kelli Berglundb. 1996USAmerican actress, dancer, and singer

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 51 sources across 29 countries.

Official registers attesting Kelli
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202066K#756
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—17K#1,522
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—17K#641
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202210K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—10K#1,687
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—491#7,152
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—450#304
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—236#15,816
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020162#756
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—55#8,040
AU AustraliaQLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present)197247—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—44#1,687

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 380 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Kelli?
We estimate roughly 596 thousand people bear Kelli (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Kelli have the most bearers?
Kelli is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled kelly.
How common is Kelli compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Kelli is the 78th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
Is Kelli a male or female name?
Kelli is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Kelli mean?
Recorded meaning: A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kelly.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kelli” — the 78th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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