Connelly
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɒnəli/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Connelly is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Anglicised form of the Irish surnames Ó Conghalaigh and Ó Conghaile, patronyms of the given names Conghalach and Conghaile, respectively.
- USUnited States1 in 14K(measured from records)
- IEIreland≈1 in 4Kas Connell
- AUAustralia≈1 in 6.1Kas Connell
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 Connelly itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 448 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈75,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Connell in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 3 more.
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)
Anglicised form of the Irish surnames Ó Conghalaigh and Ó Conghaile, patronyms of the given names Conghalach and Conghaile, respectively.
Sources 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Connelly 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈75,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Connelly | 10 |
| US United States | #553 | 23,398 | 1 in 14K | 23K | Connell | 448 |
| GB United Kingdom | #386 | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | 14 | Connell | 239 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Connell | 9 |
| AU Australia | #325 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | 1 | Connell | 185 |
| IE Ireland | #135 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Connell | 115 |
| NZ New Zealand | #403 | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Connell | 83 |
| JM Jamaica | #355 | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 9.1K | — | Connelly | 5 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 43as Connell | 1 in 2.4K | 43 | — | 2 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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)
- Edward Connellyb. 1858USactor (1858-1928)
- Marc Connellyb. 1890USAmerican playwright (1890-1980)
- Bobby Connellyb. 1909USAmerican actor (1909–1922)
- Joe Connellyb. 1917USscriptwriter (1917–2003)
- John Connellyb. 1938GBEnglish footballer (1938-2012)
- Christopher Connellyb. 1941USAmerican actor (1941–1988)
- Michael Connellyb. 1956USAmerican novelist, journalist, crime fiction writer, and screenwriter (born 1956)
- Chris Connellyb. 1964USBritish musician and theatre actor
- Jennifer Connellyb. 1970USAmerican actress (born 1970)
- Peter Connellyb. 1972GBvideo game composer and sound designer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 23K | #1,537 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 23K | #1,443 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 22K | #1,587 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Connelly mean, and where does it come from?
- Anglicised form of the Irish surnames Ó Conghalaigh and Ó Conghaile, patronyms of the given names Conghalach and Conghaile, respectively. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- How do you pronounce Connelly?
- A machine transcription gives /kɒnəli/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Connelly?
- In the etymology graph, Connolly is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Connelly have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 75 thousand people named Connelly in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled connelly.
- How common is the name Connelly?
- In the United States, the national register counted 23,398 people named Connelly in 2010, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Connelly compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Connelly is the 135th most common surname of 73,729 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/connellyThe 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, “Connelly” — the 135th most common surname in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.