Ketzaly
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ket-SAH-lee
- US rank, 2025
- #4,264 for girls
Ketzaly is a girls' name, meaning “precious feather; quetzal”. In 2025 it ranked 4,264th for girls in the US (33 babies).
What does Ketzaly mean?
Nahuatl, from quetzalli 'precious feather'
“precious feather; quetzal”
The quetzal bird's shimmering green feathers were treasured by the Aztecs and Maya, as in the god Quetzalcoatl.
Is Ketzaly a girl's or a boy's name?
Ketzaly is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 33 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ketzaly in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,264th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 33 about 1 in 49,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 72% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 33 girls in the US were named Ketzaly, making it the 4,264th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,310th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 48 girls. It first appears in the records in 2003.
Half of all the girls named Ketzaly in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 48 girls in the US were given Ketzaly or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,626, up from #4,264 for this spelling alone.
- Ketzaly 33
- Ketzali 15
Ketzaly in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #4,264 |
| 2024 | 43 | #3,575 |
| 2023 | 48 | #3,329 |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,106 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,557 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,310 |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,342 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,788 |
| 2017 | 10 | #9,939 |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,872 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,004 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,512 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,175 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,446 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,420 |
Names like Ketzaly
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Klarity, Ailany, Everly, Kennedy, Legacy, Emberly, Royalty, Bellamy, Emery, Wrenley, Blakely, Murphy
Other spellings of Ketzaly
Names related to Ketzaly
Sources
Figures from 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, “Ketzaly: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ketzaly, updated 20 October 2026.