girls:
82 births since 1969
#5634 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.5k births since 1967
#3132 (32nd percentile)
overall:
1.6k births since 1967
#6142 (21st percentile)
The name Telly is the #6,142 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,604 recorded births since 1967. This represents the 20.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 20.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,132 (31.7% percentile) for all time with 1,522 births since 1967. For girls, it ranks #5,634 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 82 births since 1969.
Telly first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1967 (1967 for boys and 1969 for girls). Birth data for Telly is available in 49 out of the 55 years between 1967 and 2021 (48 years for boys and 7 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Telly has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Telly reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 37.0% percentile (ranked #412) with 180 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 180 births per million (ranked 37.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
For girls, Telly reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #739) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 12 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1978.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Telly".
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