| [ 2 syll. (s)hel-ly, sh-e-lly ] The girl name Shelly is pronounced as SHEHLiy KEY. Shelly is primarily used in the English language and it is of Old English origin. Shelly is a variant form of the English name Shelley. Shelly is unusual as a baby girl name. Its usage peaked modestly in 1966 with 0.220% of baby girls being given the name Shelly. It was #89 in rank then. The baby name has experienced a substantial decline in frequency since then, and is now of irregular use. Among all girl names in its family, Shelly was nonetheless the most commonly used in 2007. Though Shelly is currently more often than not a girl name, there was a period from 1901 to 1904 when more boys were given the name. From 1943 on, increasingly more girls than boys were named Shelly. In 1950, 6 times more girls than boys were given the name Shelly. Baby names that sound like Shelly include the English Shelley, the English and French Sally, the English Scilla, the English Shayla, the Indian Sheela, the English and Irish Sheila, the English Shelia, the Indian Shila, the English and Hebrew Shiloh, the Finnish, Frisian, German, and Scandinavian Silja, the Yiddish Sisel, the English Sisley, the Spanish Soli, the Dutch Ceciel, the English Cecil, the English Cecile, the English Cecille, the English Ceila, the English Ceileh, the English Ceileigh, the English Celesse, the English, Italian, and Spanish Celia, the English Celie, the French Cécile, the French Célia, the French Célie, the Hungarian Cili, the Dutch, Scandinavian, and English Cilla, the English Sal, the Arabic and Turkish Saliha, the English Secelia, the English Selia, the English Shell, the German Sile, the Scottish Sìle, the Irish Síle, the Portuguese and Spanish Sol, the Spanish Suelo, the English Syl, the Polish Sylwia, the English Ceceli, the English Cecelia, the English Cecila, the English, Finnish, German, Italian, Scandinavian, and Spanish Cecilia, the Czech, German, and Scandinavian Cecilie, the English Cecillia, the English Cecily, the Portuguese and Slavic Cecília, the Czech Cecílie, the English Ceclia, the English Ceil, the English Ceilia, the English Cesilie, the English Cicelie, the English Cicely, the English Cicilie, the Scandinavian Cille, the English Ceceilia, the English Cecilea, the Polish Cecylia, and the English Celesia. KEY: Pronunciation for Shelly: SH as in "she (SH.IY)" ; EH as in "Ed (EH.D)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)"
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