Telly

Where Telly comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Telly.

  • Vowel-ended
Telly through the years
  1. 1967
    First appearance
    #3,966 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1972
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
  3. 1974
    Peak, #468
    294 babies named Telly, the most in any year.
  4. 1975
    Telly Blackwood born
    American professional wrestler
  5. 1977
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #732.
  6. 1980
    Telly Leung born
    American actor and musician
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Telly Leung · American actor and musician, born 1980
  • Telly Blackwood · American professional wrestler, born 1975

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.