Keely

Where Keely comes from

Variant of Keeley.
— Wiktionary's entry for Keely
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1957
    First appearance
    #4,918 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1997
    Peak, #455
    555 babies named Keely — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1999
    Keely Cashman born
    American alpine skier
  4. 2002
    Keely Hodgkinson born
    English athlete specialising in the 800 metres, born 2002
  5. 2010
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,143.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Keely Hodgkinson · English athlete specialising in the 800 metres, born 2002, born 2002
  • Keely Cashman · American alpine skier, born 1999
  • Keely Froling · Australian basketball player, born 1996
  • Keely Small · Australian sprinter, born 2001

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.