Name

Name SHELLY

Between 1880 and 2022 there were 88,083 births of Shelly in the countries below, which represents an average of 620 births of children bearing the first name Shelly per year on average throughout this period.
On the last available year for each country, we count 40 births.

Other languages :
En Français

Prénom Shelly
In Italiano

Nome Shelly

Variation : Shelley

Information about the first name Shelly

The first name Shelly is listed in our categories :

Portuguese names (girls)
Shelly

The first name Shelly has been assigned to:

0.48% to boys
99.52% to girls

The country where the first name Shelly is the most common is:

United State of America

This first name is on trend: Female

This first name has 6 letters including 2 vowels and 4 consonants

Shelly in Japanese ^*

Romaji	sherii
Katakana	シェリー
Hiragana	しぇりー
* This is a phonetic conversion, not a translation.
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Shelly in sign language

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Shelly in binary language

01110011 01101000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01111001

Origin and meaning of name Shelly

English

Etymology

shell +‎ -y

Adjective

shelly (comparative shellier, superlative shelliest)
Composed of the shells of dead marine creatures
Resembling, or comprising, the shell of a mollusc
Abounding with shells.

Anagrams

Hysell

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ˈʃɛli/
Rhymes: -ɛli
Homophone: Shelley

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɛli

General

Proper noun

Shelly
A surname from Old English, variant of Shelley.
A male given name transferred from the surname, of mostly pre-1930 usage.
A female given name transferred from the surname, of 1930s and later usage, variant of Shelley.

Popularity of the name Shelly

Number of SHELLY births per year

Popularity of the name Shelly

Total births of Shelly by country

		Births with the first name Shelly
Country		Boys Girls
	United State of America 1880 - 2022	422 81,666
	Ontario 1913 - 2019	0 2,791
	British Columbia 1919 - 2022	0 981
	France 1900 - 2022	0 742
	Brazil 1930 - 2022	0 320
	New Zealand 1900 - 2022	0 299
	Alberta 1980 - 2022	0 189
	United Kingdom 1996 - 2021	0 182
	Quebec 1980 - 2022	2 113
	Belgium 1995 - 2022	0 109
	Switzerland 1909 - 2021	0 75
	Italy 1999 - 2021	0 70
	Ireland 1964 - 2022	0 44
	Australia 1930 - 2022	2 37
	Denmark 1985 - 2022	0 14
	Austria 1984 - 2021	0 10
	Germany 2000 - 2022	0 8
	Argentina 1922 - 2015	0 5
	Czechoslovakia 1900 - 2016	0 2