Kellys

Proper noun

Kelly (countable and uncountable, plural Kellies or (nonstandard) Kellys)

1. A surname from Irish, Anglicised from the Irish Ó Ceallaigh.
   • A better and more straightforward appeal, though less cool, was made to him by Hugh Kelly, - - - The play was so successful, and Garrick said so much of it that Lord Pembroke was eager to be back from Paris to see it, though he said, with true aristocratic pride, that he could expect very little...1867, Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald, The Life of David Garrick, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, published 1899, page 319
2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
3. A female given name transferred from the surname, popular from the 1960s to the 1990s.
   • On the walls of the salon are blown-up photos of models with dazzling teeth and ingeniously tousled hair - women with names like Kelly and Dawn, who come from tiny towns in Texas and Washington, who are tall and thin, and who don't appear to be burdened by any pasts to speak of.1986, Daphne Merkin, chapter 1986, in Enchantment, Harcourt Brace Jovanovi, →ISBN, page 207
4. An unincorporated community in Nemaha County, Kansas.
5. An unincorporated community in Christian County, Kentucky.
6. An unincorporated community in Caldwell Parish, Louisiana.

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