Keely
About 12,719 American babies have been named Keely since 1957, most of them around 1997. In 2025 it ranked 2,719th. About 12,000 Keelys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 28.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Keely boys named Keely
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 12,719
- Estimated living today
- 12,000
- Median age today
- 28
- Peak year
- 1997
- Best rank
- 455th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,719th
- First recorded
- 1957
- Girls / boys
- 12,698 / 21
How old the living Keelys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 12,719 babies given the name since 1957, about 12,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 2,300 of them are children and 280 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1997 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Variant of Keeley.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Keelys
- Keely Hodgkinson (born 2002)English athlete specialising in the 800 metres, born 2002
- Keely Smith (1928–2017)American singer
People named Keely with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Keely is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Keely is most concentrated in Oregon (2.5×), Oklahoma (2.1×), Washington (2.0×), Colorado (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1997
The most popular girls’ names the year Keely peaked:
Keely elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Keely | 1,089 | 282nd |
| Ireland girls | Keely | 115 | 279th |
| Scotland girls | Keely | 48 | 460th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Keely | 47 | 241st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Keely against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.