Jelly

given name · Latin script

Meaning: A dessert made by boiling gelatine (or a plant-based alternative such as agar or carrageenan), sugar and some flavouring (often derived from fruit) and allowing it to set

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/d͡ʒɛli/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Jelly is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 5.4K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 1.2M
  • NLNetherlands1 in 34K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈23,000 people, est.

Sources
136 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 5.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Philippines, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

A dessert made by boiling gelatine (or a plant-based alternative such as agar or carrageenan), sugar and some flavouring (often derived from fruit) and allowing it to set.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Jelly counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Jelly is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China≈23,000 est.≈1 in 61K—Jelly12
PH Philippines≈20,000 est.≈1 in 5.4K—Jelly75
NL Netherlands5091 in 34K509Jelly28
NG Nigeria≈300 est.≈1 in 715K—Jelly11
US United States2861 in 1.2M247Jelly136
AE United Arab Emirates≈170 est.≈1 in 60K—Jelly15
BH Bahrain≈18 est.≈1 in 84K—Jelly3

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Jelly is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Peru, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Jëlly, Jëllŷ, Jẻḷḷỹ

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, China

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Jelly

  • Swahili given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Tanzania, United States, Kenya

    Also written Jêlly

  • French given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, United States, Netherlands

    Also written Ĵĕlļŷ, Jéllÿ, Jëllÿ

  • German given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Austria, Netherlands

    Also written Jélly

63 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Jelly d'Arányi, b. 1895Jelly Gardner, b. 1895Jelly Fujio, b. 1940Jelly van den Bosch, b. 1941Jelly Selau, b. 1983Jelly Howie, b. 1987

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHi Jelly,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 31 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Jelly
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—509#1,986
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—316#4,216
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020247#30,462
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202039#30,462

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Jelly mean, and where does it come from?
A dessert made by boiling gelatine (or a plant-based alternative such as agar or carrageenan), sugar and some flavouring (often derived from fruit) and allowing it to set. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Jelly?
A machine transcription gives /d͡ʒɛli/ (IPA) for English.
Is Jelly a male or female name?
Jelly is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Jelly have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Jelly in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jelly.
How common is the name Jelly?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 509 people named Jelly, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jelly”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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