Shelly

At the 2020 census, 4,726 Americans bore the surname Shelly — 6,852nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 63,200.

By the numbers

People: 4,726
Rank: 6,852nd
How common: 1 in 63,200
Per 100,000: 1.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Shelly described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 75.7%
Black, not Hispanic 14.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Shelly

Adrienne Shelly (1966–2006)American actress
Tony Shelly (1937–1998)New Zealand racing driver

People named Shelly with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Shelly

Also a first name

Shelly has been given to 86,610 American babies as a first name since 1882, peaking in 1964. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.