Keely Girl
How popular is Keely?
#2,719 girl name in 2025
63 baby girls were named Keely in the US in 2025, making it the 2719th most popular girl name.
Keely popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #2,719 for girls (▼ 666 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 63 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-36% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,996 in 2015, #2,549 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1997 (555 girls) |
| Highest rank | #455 in 1997 |
| First recorded | 1957 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Keely counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Keeley family of names ranked #968 for girls in 2025 (#905 the year before), with 215 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Keely is most popular
Babies named Keely per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Kansas: 0.1 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- South Carolina: 0.1 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- Minnesota: 0.1 per 1,000 (6 girls)
- Pennsylvania: 0.1 per 1,000 (13 girls)
- Georgia: 0.0 per 1,000 (10 girls)
Keely by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 210 | #964 |
| 1960s | 741 | #965 |
| 1970s | 1,305 | #822 |
| 1980s | 1,733 | #792 |
| 1990s | 3,342 | #455 |
| 2000s | 3,659 | #610 |
| 2010s | 1,258 | #1,143 |
| 2020s | 450 | #2,053 |
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Questions
- Is Keely a boy or girl name?
- Keely is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Keely were girls.
- How popular is the name Keely?
- 63 baby girls were named Keely in the US in 2025, making it the 2719th most popular girl name.
- When was Keely most popular?
- Keely peaked in 1997, when 555 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #455 in 1997.
- How many people are named Keely?
- 12,719 babies have been named Keely in the US since 1880. We estimate about 12,401 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 29.
- Where is Keely most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Keely was most common in Kansas, at 0.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.