Telly

Where Telly comes from

Telly 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. 1967
    First appearance
    #3,966 among boys, 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 it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1974
    Peak, #468
    294 babies named Telly — more than any year before or since.
  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

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

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.