Kelsi
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kəɫsi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kelsi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 37K(measured from records)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 53K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 151K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 303 (measured from records)
- 1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
8,881 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kelsi counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 8,881 | 1 in 37K | 8.9K | Kelsi | 303 |
| CA Canada | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 156K | 5 | Kelsi | 82 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 331K | 4 | Kelsi | 76 |
| AU Australia | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 151K | 3 | Kelsi | 60 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Kelsi | 18 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 53K | 10 | Kelsi | 49 |
| AL Albania | 17 | 1 in 181K | 10 | — | — |
8,881 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); the ca-statcan-baby-names register; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kelsi is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, shearling (sheepskin or lambskin)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kelsi Singerb. 1984USAmerican planetary scientist
- Kelsi Fairbrotherb. 1989GBBritish handball player
- Kelsi Landryb. 1990CACanadian association football player
- Kelsi Crainb. 1990USAmerican beauty pageant contestant
- Kelsi Monroeb. 1992USAmerican pornographic actress
- Kelsi Dahliab. 1994USAmerican swimmer
- Kelsi Parkerb. 1994NZNew Zealand rower
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 8.9K | #2,656 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 624 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 575 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 548 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 520 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 501 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1997 | 500 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 492 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1998 | 483 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 1992 | 42 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 37 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 1993 | 35 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Kelsi?
- A machine transcription gives /kəɫsi/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Kelsi a male or female name?
- Kelsi 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 are other forms of the name Kelsi?
- In the etymology graph, Kelsey, Kelsie and Kelsea are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Kelsi have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.9 thousand people named Kelsi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kelsi.
- Where is Kelsi most common?
- Kelsi is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 37 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kelsi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,881 people named Kelsi in 2020, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kelsi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kelsiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Kelsi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.