Baby name

Telly

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5% girls / 95% boys

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1974 was its best year: 294 births, or 1 baby in 10,339. Since then, the name has fallen 99%, to about 0 births a year. No births recorded in 2025: the name is no longer given, or too rarely to be published. 68% of all babies named Telly since 1880 were born in the 1970s.

1,527births since 1880

1970sgeneration

No. 468rank at its peak, in 1974

Where babies named Telly are born

1974

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The darker the blue, the more common Telly is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.

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Girls and boys, decade by decade

Decade	Girls	Boys
1960s	28%	72%
1970s	7%	93%
1980s	0%	100%
1990s	0%	100%
2000s	0%	100%
2010s	0%	100%
2020s	0%	100%