Kelly - Opinions please

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DD due in a month and Kelly is one we both agree.

Honest opinions please :)

Don't like it at all, but like this or Caisey? Or Cassie?

It's the female equivalent of gary of kevin

Let the name die out

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I knew a nice Kelly at school and a horrible Kelly I worked with. Unfortunately the horrible Kelly has tainted the name for me.

If you put a name to a personality and chose not to like it because of that personality then there would be no names left to choose from. I knew a Sarah that stole from me, a Clare that took drugs, a Laura that slept about, a Rachel that farted in class. Does that mean you got to hate the name. This is more a character assassination for all those named Kelly. Sounds to me like all those that are very forward in saying that all Kelly's were typical of a certain crap behaviour should look at the way they are acting on here and ask themselves if they are bullies themselves.

One of my best friends is called Kelly and she's lovely.
Mind you, the name does also make me think of Saved by the Bell and Kelly Kapowski! 😂

Very dated. I prefer Kerry and I have always really liked the name Kelsey but they're also very dated so wouldn't use them.

My name is Kelly born in 94 and I don't even like hairspray

I guess everyone has someone with a name they don't like but I wasn't a bully, I'm in training to be a mental health nurse and all the other Kelly's/Kelly-Anns I've met have been lovely. I think it was quite common from the 70s to the 90s as I've met quite a few!

With the names they come out with nowadays it probably will seem a bit unusual when she's older but if you like it then who cares.

I love it. I know two under 5.

I grew up with 2 Kelly's. One lovely one really nasty 🤷‍♀️

It's best to give options on the name but it's easy done to compare them to people we know.

It will forever remind me of Woody in Cheers and the Kelly Song

Erm my name 👌 and I don't think it's dated per se..... I only know 2 others 😏 common in American as a boys name

I'd barely read the comments before I commented, but I agree, vipers are out in force..... Never associated Kelly Brook as a bully or tramp or whatever other vile connotations have been mentioned.... And I don't possess those traits either.

It is a lovely name. Go with what you like.

It's a name you don't hear much these days. I was born in 82 and went to school in the late 80s/90s with lots of Kelly's.
I think alot of those 80s/90s names of girls I went to school with are no longer used such as Laura, Sarah, Nicola, Natalie, Kelly, Lindsey, Lisa.
Personally I think it's a nice name and makes a nice change from the Lilly-Maes and Isla's that are everywhere now!

I’m a Kelly and I’ve always liked my name. Never met another Kelly.

At school it would only get shortened to Kell or sometimes Kelly Belly/Jelly/Welly - this was always said in an affectionate and friendly way and I was never bothered by it.

Autocorrect will always call me jelly 😂😂