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Kelly
Pronounced /ˈkɛli/
Rank in 2024
#1,581
Born in 2024
109
Peak year
1967 · #102
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:310 in 2024 (#870)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 109 boys were named Kelly, about 1 in every 15,737.
- It peaked in 1967 with 3,093 babies, ranked #102.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 82,317 boys 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
- 0.8Boomers1946–64
- 1.2Gen X1965–80
- 0.4Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 2,063 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Silent: 2,904 babies, 0.14 per 1,000. Boomers: 28,675 babies, 0.76 per 1,000. Gen X: 32,490 babies, 1.19 per 1,000. Millennials: 12,013 babies, 0.39 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,574 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,304 babies, 0.06 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.