Telly — #12588 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Telly

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,527 babies named Telly between 1967 and 2024, spanning 58 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Telly currently holds the #12588 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1974, when 294 babies received it in a single year. Telly is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 82 additional births since 1969.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Telly performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 1,044 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Telly shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 108 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and South Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Telly in 21 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Telly in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,527 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.