Would you name a boy this..?

[AuntieBrenda]

Kelly.
As in Irish surname, as in Kelly Jones of Stereophonics.

Would you?

oh, and I would assume welsh, not irish, because I know a couple keri/kerry s who are welsh and I think it looks similar

Don't the Irish have a knack of taking simple names and spelling them in a ridiculous way. Surely Kelly would be spelt Kelighah or something equally unpronounceable. Aside from that, no.

Really? What a ridiculous thing to say.

i dont particularly like the name for a boy or girl, but dislike the ignorant racist comments about irish spelling more.

No. Not least because it would remind me of that talentless droning dickhead from The Stereophonics.

Kelly Severide in Chicago Fire pulls it off.

And Scottish rugby player Kelly Brown is the nicest man you could ever meet. A genuine gent.

I'm liking the posters who are misreading it as Kerry

I agree that I prefer it as a boy's name than a girl's, the only Kelly I have known was a bloke.

I've never met a male Kelly in rl
Forgot about Kelly slater too

Thanks for the post explaining the basis of where Kelly came from in the Irish Language.

As regards the insulting comments about the Irish using ridiculus spellings - well, I'm just grateful I'm not that ignorant about my neighbouring countries language and traditions.

I know! I'm welsh and also get affronted by language mockery

There's no K in Welsh either. Nickel you must be thinking of Ceri. I know male and female Ceris.

There's no K in Welsh either. Nickel you must be thinking of Ceri. I know male and female Ceris.

Kelly slater. Yum

Carey?

I know a male Kelly, always assumed that he's a she when talking about him.
Even if someone says something to me about him I automatically think through the females first.

Kerry would be nice for a boy, I think.

I wouldn't, no.

I know a Kelly jones and she is definitely female!

The first Kelly I knew was a female Labrador and it's the doggyness more than the sex that comes instantly to mind and would put me off!

I thought it was a girls name. Didn't realise it could be a boys name too. It didn't sound too bad and then I remembered this

'Don't the Irish have a knack of taking simple names and spelling them in a ridiculous way. Surely Kelly would be spelt Kelighah or something equally unpronounceable. Aside from that, no.'

No, we don't take 'simple' names and spell them in a ridiculous way, we spell Irish names in an IRISH way. You know, because it's a different language? The world does not revolve around the English language you ignorant fool.

Only if DH and I were both very strong, very good fighters and/or very attractive, and very confident that our son would be the same. Otherwise, no.

Trifle - the Irish spell their names in IRISH, not a ridiculous way. Bloody cheek.

Trifle, please tell me you're making a joke which backfired - you don't seriously think God is an Englishman and all those silly foreigners talk weirdly because they're showoffs, do you?

Another thing accomplished by changing O Ceallaigh to Kelly or O'Kelly, etc., was that the feminine form of the name ni Cheallaigh was eliminated altogether.