Keely
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Gaelic: beautiful, graceful (Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Keely is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Keely is also written Кили in Cyrillic.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 25K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 32Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Keely itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 373 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
18,180 named Kiley, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Keely in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Gaelic: beautiful, graceful.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Keely, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Keely 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 18,180as Kiley | 1 in 18K | 17K | Keely | 373 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 4 | Keely | 160 |
| AU Australia | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 44 | Keely | 123 |
| CA Canada | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 50K | 6 | Keely | 123 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 32K | 13 | Keely | 54 |
| IE Ireland | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Keely | 56 |
| BR Brazil | 50 | 1 in 4.2M | 50 | — | 1 |
18,180 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling kiley. 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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Keely Frolingb. 1996AUAustralian basketball player (born 1996)
- Keely Hodgkinsonb. 2002GBEnglish athlete specialising in the 800 metres, born 2002
- Keely Bennettb. 2002AUAustralian sport cyclist
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)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)41 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Keely mean, and where does it come from?
- Gaelic: beautiful, graceful. Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- What are other forms of the name Keely?
- In the etymology graph, Keeleigh is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Keely?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 50 people named Keely in 2022, about 1 in 4.2 million residents.
- Is Keely a male or female name?
- Keely is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Keely?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 18 thousand people named Kiley, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and New Zealand; the country table on this page ranks them.
What do you want to know about Keely?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/keelyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Keely” — ranked 1700th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.