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 [ 2 syll. (s)hel-ly, sh-e-lly ] The boy name Shelly is also used, and more often so, as a girl name. Its pronunciation is SHEHLiy KEY. Shelly is used chiefly in the English language and its origin is Old English. Shelly is a variant of the name Sheldon (English). Shelly is unusual as a baby name for boys. Its usage peaked modestly in 1901 with 0.007% of baby boys being given the name Shelly. Its ranking then was #848. The baby name has since experienced a loss in popularity, and is today of sporadic use. In 2008, among the group of boy names directly linked to Shelly, Sheldon (English) was the most widely used. Though Shelly is more popular as a girl name today, there was a period from 1901 to 1904 that it was given more often to boys. From 1943 on, increasingly more girls than boys were named Shelly. In 1950, Shelly as a girl name outnumbered its use as a boy name by 6 times. Baby names that sound like Shelly include Shelley (English), Sahale, Salah (Arabic), Salehe (Swahili), Salih (Arabic), Satchel (English), Segel, Selah (English), Sewall (English), Sha'ul (Hebrew), Shakeel (English), Shaquil (English), Shaquille (Arabic and English), Shilo (English and Hebrew), Shiloh (English and Hebrew), Shola (Yoruban), Skelley (English), Skellie (English), Skelly (English), and Sohil (Indian). 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)"   |
