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Kelise

Gender
Girl
Say it
keh-LEES
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#11,928 for girls

Kelise is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).

Where does Kelise come from?

Modern: modern blend, perhaps of Kelly and Elise

Is Kelise a girl's or a boy's name?

Kelise is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Kelise in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2004, with 34 girls.

Half of all the girls named Kelise in the UK since 1996 were born between 2002 and 2009, the years shaded on the chart below.

2000Busiest: 34 in 20042020
Kelise in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20203#5,734
20190–
20183#5,896
20175#4,250
20164#4,980
20151#7,629
20144#4,888
20136#3,719
20127#3,471
201111#2,393
20104#4,931
20099#2,695
20088#2,895
200713#1,964
200612#1,987
200519#1,332
200434#866
20034#3,768
200216#1,333
200121#1,070
200019#1,137

How popular is Kelise in the US?

Rank in 2025
#11,928among girls
Babies in 2025
7about 1 in 230,000 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 56% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Kelise, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,077th. Its busiest year was 2007, with 51 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.

2025 had fewer girls named Kelise than any year since 1999.

Half of all the girls named Kelise in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.

1994Busiest: 51 in 20072025
Kelise in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20257#11,928
20249#10,266
202316#6,917
202213#8,027
202117#6,686
202034#4,077
201910#9,730
201828#4,766
201727#4,920
201629#4,733
201519#6,450
201423#5,623
201328#4,885
201230#4,705
201138#3,915
201021#6,180
200939#3,943
200828#5,140
200751#3,289
200642#3,668
200527#4,824
200436#3,894
200327#4,663
200219#5,892
200125#4,683
200021#5,307
19990–
19980–
19970–
19960–
19950–
19945#13,423

Names like Kelise

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Names related to Kelise

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Kelise: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kelise, updated 20 October 2026.