Zelly
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/zəɫli/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zelly is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 750K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay≈1 in 1M
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.3M
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.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- 1 in 750K (inferred from the name graph)
≈62 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zelly 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 | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 5.3M | — | Zelly | 20 |
| BR Brazil | 35 | 1 in 6M | 37 | Zelly | 22 |
| PH Philippines | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | — | Zelly | 8 |
| PE Peru | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Zelly | 15 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 13M | 32 | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 1M | 1 | Zelly | 1 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 37 | #42,097 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 35 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 32 | #85,084 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #71,546 |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 1967 | 1 | — |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 1947 | 1 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zelly mean, and where does it come from?
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Zelly?
- A machine transcription gives /zəɫli/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Zelly a male or female name?
- Zelly 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 Zelly have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 62 people named Zelly in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zelly.
- Where is Zelly most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zelly is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 750 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zelly?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 35 people named Zelly in 2022, about 1 in 6.0 million residents.
What do you want to know about Zelly?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zellyThe 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, “Zelly”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.