Neely

Where Neely comes from

Neely hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1883
    Neely Edwards born
    actor
  2. 1888
    Debut at its peak, #1,276
    #1,276 among girls with 5 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  3. 1889
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1968
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Neely Edwards · actor, 1883–1965

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.