Last Name KELLY

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	Local: from the village of Kelly in Renfrewshire. A grove, generally of hazel. 'Kill' or 'Cille,' in the Gaelic and Celtic, denotes a church. Bright-headed.

Origin	Scottish, Gaelic, Welsh, Irish, Jewish, French, Celtic, Belgian, South african, Hungarian

Rank	69 (2000 US census)	74 (1990 US census)

Count	260,385 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

80.39%, or 209324 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
15.48%, or 40308 total occurrences, as black,
0.49%, or 1276 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.55%, or 1432 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.35%, or 3515 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.73%, or 4505 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

American Surnames

One could claim that American surnames are very straightforward to describe and identify. Due to the way this country was formed, having people coming here from all over the world, the surnames simply represent all those people of different nationalities. So, we are don...

Shortest last names

The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...