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Name Shelly

Meaning:

meadow on a shelf

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About the name Shelly in particular

Gender:	female
Languages of use:	English
US 2021 rank:	not in the Top 1000; other popularity lists see below
Similarly written:	Shelby, Shelby, Shelley, Ashely, Elly, Hella, Helle, Holly, Kelly, Kelly Details

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About Shelley, the group of names with the same origin as Shelly

Meaning/translation:	meadow on a shelf
Language of origin:	Old English
Info about origin:	from a family name deriving form a place name with the meaning meadow on a shelf
Words:	scylf = the shelf Old English
	leah = the wood (in the sense of forest), the clearing (open place within a wood), the meadow Old English
Topics:	Family name, Geographic name
Variants' top ranks:	112:Shelly USA 1960-1969, 155:Shelley USA 1960-1969

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Popularity lists that contain the name Shelly

Series	Graph	Rankings
USA decades	Graph	1990-1999 820, 1980-1989 273, 1970-1979 122, 1960-1969 112
USA yearly	Graph	1996 904, 1995 819, 1994 738, 1993 697