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Worldwide, Curley (Curley
, 柯利
, カーリー
) is quite a rare dominantly boy's, but uncommonly feminine first name. The first name Curley is characteristic of the United States, where it is a rare principally masculine, but scarcely girly name, and China, where it is a very rare gender-neutral name. More frequently, Curley is the last name as well as the forename.
Curley is also a popular name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Curley , the operatic character in the opera Of Mice and Men by Carlisle Floyd; Carly Shay , the main protagionist of television show iCarly; Carly Diggle , the fictional character from the television series Arrow; Carly Witwicky , the fictional character, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Carly Whittaker , the fictional character from the television series How I Met Your Mother, and in many other works.