Keli
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables.
Keli by the numbers
Its American peak was 190 babies in 1979, making it a 1970s name.
What we can tell you about Keli
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Keli. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Kaliblack; fierce; Hindu goddess of time1,120 in the US (2017)
- Kelsiship victory; a form of kelsey101 in the US (2017)
- Keylibright-headed; a modern respelling of Kelly66 in the US (2017)
- Keridark-haired; variant of kerry35 in the US (2017)
- Kellibright-headed; a spelling variant of Kelly30 in the US (2017)
- Kelcibright-headed; a form of Kelsey14 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Keli
Names that are said the same way as Keli, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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