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Kelly
Pronounced /ˈkɛli/
Rank in 2024
#870
Born in 2024
310
Peak year
1977 · #10
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:109 in 2024 (#1,581)
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 310 girls were named Kelly, about 1 in every 5,204.
- It peaked in 1977 with 18,234 babies, ranked #10.
- It first shows up in the records in 1907.
- 473,641 girls have been named Kelly since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Kelly per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- 2.0Boomers1946–64
- 8.6Gen X1965–80
- 5.0Millennials1981–96
- 1.2Gen Z1997–12
- 0.3Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 186 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Silent: 384 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Boomers: 70,545 babies, 1.97 per 1,000. Gen X: 220,447 babies, 8.63 per 1,000. Millennials: 140,366 babies, 4.97 per 1,000. Gen Z: 35,700 babies, 1.23 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 6,013 babies, 0.30 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Borrowed from Irish Ó Ceallaigh. Doublet of Kellogg and Callahan.
- A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A female given name transferred from the surname, popular from the 1960s to the 1990s.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈkɛli/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Kelly, CC BY-SA 4.0.