Lely
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/lˈɛlj/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lely is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): scattered. see Lilley .
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 58K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 151K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 103 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈24,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): scattered. see Lilley .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lely 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | #764 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Lely | 103 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Lely | 8 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 355K | — | Lely | 7 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 151K | — | Lely | 16 |
| US United States | — | 176 | 1 in 1.9M | 154 | Lely | 25 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 172K | — | Lely | 8 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 22 | 1 in 154K | 22 | — | — |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Lely 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.
In enm, alternative form of lilie
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Peter Lelyb. 1618DE17th-century Dutch painter (1618–1680)
- Cornelis Lelyb. 1854NLDutch civil servant and politician (1854-1929)
- Cornelis Willem Lelyb. 1885NLDutch hydraulic engineer; son of Cornelis Lely, 1885-1932
- Hugh Vandervaes Lelyb. 1891botanist (1891-1947)
- Alex Lelyb. 1973NLDutch pool player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 154 | #41,535 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 22 | #41,535 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 22 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 21 | — |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 1978 | 2 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1 | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Lely mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): scattered. see Lilley . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Lely?
- A machine transcription gives /lˈɛlj/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- Is Lely a male or female name?
- Lely is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Lely have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named Lely in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lely.
- How common is the name Lely?
- In the United States, the national register counted 176 people named Lely in 2020, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
- How common is Lely compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Lely is the 764th most common given name of 270,909 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lely?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lelyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Lely” — the 764th most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.