About the name Kelis
Kelis belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Kelis first appears in Social Security records in 2000. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #972 in 2007, and in 2024 32 babies received the name — 2,845 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.