Connelly
Girl · KON-el-ee · Irish
Connelly is a girls' name of Irish origin, meaning “fierce as a hound”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Connelly mean?
Irish: Irish surname, from Ó Conghaile
“fierce as a hound”
A variant of the Irish surname Connolly, from Ó Conghaile, 'descendant of Conghal'.
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Is Connelly a girl's or a boy's name?
Connelly is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls and 5 boys in the US.
How popular is Connelly in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #11,928among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Connelly, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,483rd. Its busiest year was 2020, with 22 girls. It first appears in the records in 1991. 5 boys were also named Connelly in 2025 (12,003rd for boys).
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Connelly than any year since 2011.
Half of all the girls named Connelly in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Connelly in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,941 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,242 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,702 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,557 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,483 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,467 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 14 | #7,985 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,610 |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,131 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,105 |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,270 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,054 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,671 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 9 | #10,915 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,139 |
Nicknames for Connelly
- Connie 378 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Connelly
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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