Jelley
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jelley is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from late forms of Giles; first attested Thomas Jely 1472 Cl.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 64K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 561K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 64K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jelley itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 194 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 64K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,200 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from late forms of Giles; first attested Thomas Jely 1472 Cl
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jelley counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 224K | — | Jelley | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Jelley | 146 |
| US United States | 593 | 1 in 561K | 629 | Jelley | 194 |
| IN India | 489as Gelli | 1 in 2.7M | 489 | Jelley | 5 |
| AU Australia | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 135K | — | Jelley | 61 |
| CA Canada | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 253K | — | Jelley | 51 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Jelley | 41 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jelley is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Anglicized form of French Giles. This is believed to be a Huguenot name.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- William Jelleyb. 1856BEBelgian painter and architect (1856-1932)
- David Jelleyb. 1871AUSouth Australian trade unionist and politician (1871–1907)
- James Jelleyb. 1873AUSouth Australian politician (1873–1954)
- Albert Jelleyb. 1894NZNew Zealand cricket umpire
- Arch Jelleyb. 1922NZNew Zealand athletics coach
- Tom Jelleyb. 1926USAmerican football player (1926-2014)
- Sophie Jelleyb. 1972GBBritish Anglican bishop
- Stephen Jelleyb. 1982GBBritish racing driver
- Daisy Jelleyb. 2000GBEnglish model, actress, and Internet personality
- Harry Jelleyarchaeologist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 5 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jelley mean, and where does it come from?
- from late forms of Giles; first attested Thomas Jely 1472 Cl Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Jelley have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.2 thousand people named Jelley in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jelley.
- How common is the name Jelley?
- In the United States, the national register counted 593 people named Jelley in 2010, about 1 in 561 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jelleyThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jelley”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.