Baby name
STABLE
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Kelli
/KEL · ee/
Meaning
“Strife or war”
American variant spelling of Kelly, originally an Irish surname from the Gaelic ceallach meaning 'strife' or 'war'; the -i spelling is distinctly 1970s American.
Nicknames
kelly · kel
Vibe
strong
How it ages.
Peak 1970s-1980s American; the spelling dates it clearly to that era.
The cultural moment.
Common as a feminine name in the United States from the late 1960s through 1980s.