Name: Kelly

Gender: Female

Usage: Kelly, of gaelic origin, is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.

People having the name Kelly are in general originating from Estonia, France, Ireland, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States of America.

Meaning: The meaning of the name Kelly is: War, Strife.

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Numerology of the first name Kelly: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.

The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 2. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: cooperative, sensitive, adaptive, passive, diplomatic, peaceful, warm.

Interpretation:
Qualities: Diplomatic, Sensitive
Ruling planet: Moon
Colors: Green, Cream
Gemstones: Pearl, Jade, Moonstone

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The name Kelly is ranked on the 67th position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.

We estimate that there are at least 6042400 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.083% of the population. The name Kelly has five characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.

The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Kelly for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:

The name day of Kelly is 9 March.

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Kelly is an English-language unisex given name, derived from the Irish surname Kelly.

It has predominantly been used as a feminine given name, with a significant minority usage as a masculine name; during the peak of the name's popularity in the United States during the 1960s to 1970s, feminine usage was about four to five times as frequent as masculine usage.


English: As a male name, an Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Ceallagh. In Australia and elsewhere in the English-speaking world it is now more commonly used as a female given name. This use probably derives from the Irish surname (Gaelic Ó Ceallaigh ‘descendant of Ceallagh’); cf. the similar recent use of Casey and Cassidy as female given names.
Variants: Kelley, Kellie f.

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