Girl
Kelli
Kelli is a girl's name meaning "Irish, descendant of the bright-headed one", drawing on Irish roots. It was at its most popular in the 1970s and is rarely chosen now. As things stand now, it is a solidly familiar choice. It has shown up in U.S. birth records across 8 of the last twelve decades.
EtymologyVariant of Kelly
IrishIrish – "descendant of the bright-headed one"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
0
1930s
0
1940s
19
1950s
1,986
1960s
16,919
1970s
21,638
1980s
21,175
1990s
10,260
2000s
2,568
2010s
410
Peaked in the 1970s · 74,975 total U.S. births since 1900