Girly
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Characteristic of a stereotypical girl, very effeminate, gentle; unmasculine
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡɝli/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Girly is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 21K(inferred from the name graph)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 20K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 1.1M
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Characteristic of a stereotypical girl, very effeminate, gentle; unmasculine.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Girly 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Girly | 41 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Girly | 20 |
| US United States | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 5.9M | — | Girly | 70 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 6.3M | — | Girly | 4 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Girly | 8 |
| NL Netherlands | 10 | 1 in 1.7M | 10 | Girly | 5 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Girly | 6 |
| SG Singapore | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Girly | 5 |
| DK Denmark | 5 | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | — | — |
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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
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)
Attested in 7 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 10 | #22,406 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 9 | #30,513 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 5 | #12,331 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Girly mean, and where does it come from?
- Characteristic of a stereotypical girl, very effeminate, gentle; unmasculine. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Girly?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɝli/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Girly a male or female name?
- Girly 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 Girly have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.3 thousand people named Girly in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled girly.
- How common is the name Girly?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 10 people named Girly, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Girly?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/girlyThe 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, “Girly”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.