Telly
Telly is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. Its best rank was 469th, in 1974.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 50.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1974294 births
- Best rank
- #469in 1974
- Since 1967
- 1,609people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,527 boys have been named Telly in the United States since 1967, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1974, with 294 births.
The name has all but left use: 5 births in 2024, against 294 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1976, and the 1970s alone account for 68%. It has spent 4 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 82 girls have also been given it, 5.1% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1974, its biggest year
Telly was the 469th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1974 were Michael, Jason, Christopher, David and James. See all of 1974.
Names that rose and fell with Telly
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dedricpeak 1977
- Rahsaanpeak 1973
- Tauruspeak 1976
- Jameypeak 1976
- Demondpeak 1974
- Torreypeak 1977
- Jasonpeak 1977
- Jeromypeak 1976
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.