Shelly

Where Shelly comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Shelly.

  • Vowel-ended
Shelly through the years
  1. 1916
    First appearance
    #4,417 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1937
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
  3. 1966
    Peak, #89
    3,856 babies named Shelly, its best rank.
  4. 1975
    Shelly Cole born
    American actress
  5. 1976
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #145.
  6. 1980
    Shelly Martinez born
    American professional wrestler, professional wrestling valet, model, and actress
In the dictionary
  • 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.
Namesakes
  • Shelly Martinez · American professional wrestler, professional wrestling valet, model, and actress, born 1980
  • Shelly Cole · American actress, born 1975
  • Shelly Kagan · American philosopher, born 1956
  • Shelly Johnson · American cinematographer, born 1958
  • Shelly Stokes · American softball player, born 1967

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.