Kelle
2,345 recorded births · active 1950–2003
Compare Kelle →Living-age distribution
The median living Kelle is 56. If you meet a Kelle, there's about a 70% chance they're between 41 and 65 years old.
Popularity arc
Peak Kelle: 1968. Down 100% from peak.
Gender balance
Kelle is almost always given to female babies — 98.2% female.
Rarity
Kelle ranks #6,884 out of 105,966 names ever recorded by the SSA.
Geographic fingerprint
Kelles are 0.5x more common in the West than the national average.
Predictive modeling
Three statistical models, all fit to Kelle's own SSA history plus the historical behavior of every other name in the dataset.
Peak popularity prediction
Kelle's modeled peak was #1,803 in 1962 — its trend isn't projected to beat that.
Not enough continuous recent history to project a peak rank.
Name life-cycle stage
A rule-based classifier over recent growth, momentum, and peak proximity.
Kelle hasn't shown up in SSA records since 2003 — fewer than 5 babies have gotten the name in any year since, which is below what the SSA even reports.
Popularity survival model
Once a name reaches a rank tier, how long does it typically stay there before falling out?
Built from a Kaplan-Meier survival curve: every historical run any name has ever had above this tier, with runs still ongoing today counted as still in progress rather than as an exit.Kelle isn't currently in the Top 100 tier. Estimated chance of entering it in the forecast window: 0%.
If Kelle enters Top 100, chance it's still there after:
Names that do enter Top 100 have historically stayed a median of ~19 years. Based on 668 historical Top 100 runs across every name in the dataset.