Meaning not yet researched.
Telly: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 0 in 2025. Its best rank was #469 in 1974.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Fewer than five US boys were given it in 2025. It peaked at #469 in 1974. No US babies were recorded with the name Telly in 2025.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
Given to fewer than five US boys in 2025; it peaked at #469 in 1974.
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Telly: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 0 boys in 2025. Peak: #469 in 1974 · most boys in one year: 294 (1974).
Fewer than five US boys were named Telly in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #469, reached in 1974. That year also had the most boys given the name: 294. For comparison, it was #7,979 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Telly in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1967 with 5 babies. In all, 1,609 US babies have been given the name, 5.1% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,121 babies named Telly.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 36 US boys were named Telly; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 11.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Tilly (2,699 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Telia and Telio are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Telia (709), Telio (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Telly in the open dataset we use.
Telly is listed as a nickname for Aristotle.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | — | — | 5 | #14,029 |
| 2021 | — | — | 5 | #13,862 |
| 2020 | — | — | 11 | #7,448 |
| 2017 | — | — | 9 | #8,761 |
| 2016 | — | — | 6 | #12,004 |
| 2015 | — | — | 10 | #7,979 |
| 2014 | — | — | 7 | #10,594 |
| 2013 | — | — | 7 | #10,609 |
| 2012 | — | — | 9 | #8,790 |
| 2011 | — | — | 14 | #6,216 |
| 2010 | — | — | 5 | #14,036 |
| 2009 | — | — | 7 | #10,844 |
| 2008 | — | — | 7 | #10,914 |
| 2007 | — | — | 9 | #8,841 |
| 2006 | — | — | 12 | #6,866 |
| 2005 | — | — | 16 | #5,250 |
| 2004 | — | — | 8 | #8,833 |
| 2003 | — | — | 10 | #7,188 |
| 2002 | — | — | 15 | #5,110 |
| 2001 | — | — | 19 | #4,277 |
| 2000 | — | — | 24 | #3,524 |
| 1999 | — | — | 13 | #5,286 |
| 1998 | — | — | 22 | #3,474 |
| 1997 | — | — | 22 | #3,339 |
| 1996 | — | — | 13 | #4,850 |
| 1995 | — | — | 18 | #3,676 |
| 1994 | — | — | 17 | #3,891 |
| 1993 | — | — | 18 | #3,642 |
| 1992 | — | — | 8 | #6,631 |
| 1991 | — | — | 5 | #9,480 |
| 1990 | — | — | 9 | #5,766 |
| 1989 | — | — | 6 | #7,810 |
| 1986 | — | — | 9 | #4,806 |
| 1985 | — | — | 12 | #3,778 |
| 1984 | — | — | 10 | #4,176 |
| 1983 | — | — | 15 | #3,057 |
| 1982 | — | — | 18 | #2,698 |
| 1981 | — | — | 18 | #2,672 |
| 1980 | — | — | 22 | #2,360 |
| 1979 | — | — | 24 | #2,149 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,584 | 59 | #1,168 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,508 | 136 | #735 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,876 | 207 | #563 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,627 | 277 | #483 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,682 | 294 | #469 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,370 | 40 | #1,326 |
| 1972 | — | — | 7 | #4,392 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,566 | — | — |
| 1968 | — | — | 8 | #3,339 |
| 1967 | — | — | 5 | #4,479 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).