Kelly

Meaning

1. An unincorporated community in Nemaha County, Kansas.
2. A surname from Irish, Anglicised from the Irish Ó Ceallaigh.
3. A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
4. An unincorporated community in Christian County, Kentucky.
5. A number of places in the United States:
6. A roly-poly (toy).
7. A male given name transferred from the surname.
8. A placename
9. A female given name transferred from the surname, popular from the 1960s to the 1990s.
10. Kelly green.
11. A square or hexagonal pipe that is turned in order to rotate the rotary table of a drilling rig.

Etymology / origin

Borrowed from Irish Ó Ceallaigh. Doublet of Kellogg and Callahan.

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