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The first name 
Kelson

Kelson is a first name for boys.

When two boys called Kelson meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Kelson is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Kelson. In the SmartGenius ranking, Kelson is #2,837 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Kelson.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Kelson

Kelson -
special from day one

In fact, the name Kelson hardly fits the trend of first names for boys. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Kelson wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1987, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 1,760, 31 parents chose it in 1987 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Kelson, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Kelson was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Kelson - originality welcome!

In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Kelson a few times. Among all newborn boys, it ranked 3,231, for a total of 30 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Kelson seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.

Kelson -
at home only in a few regions of the USA

In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Kelson. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 90 Americans who bear this name. And these 90 men and boys named Kelson live in no more than 6 different states, including for example California, Georgia, Hawaii, Texas and Utah. In the other 43 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Kelson lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Kelson and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Kelson relative to its male population is Hawaii. And even there, only one male in 27,164 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Kelson.

Kelson has 6 letters 
and begins with a K

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 7.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J, A and D are more common for boys' names.

With six letters, the name Kelson is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that if 7.9% of all boys' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the boys’ names that begin with a K, Kenneth is the most common.

Other names with 
K, e, l, s, o and n

If you take all the letters in the name Kelson – K, e, l, s, o and n – and put them together again, you can form another name, such as Kolsen.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Kelson

If your name is Kelson and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Kelson

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Kelson, you can simply say:

Koala

Elephant

Lion

Sun

Orange

Nut

This is how the name Kelson is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Kelson in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Kelson

Kelson

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Kelson

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Kelson is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

K
E
L
S
O
N

Have you ever waved the name Kelson

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

K
E
L
S
O
N

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Kelson sounds like this: