Where is Shelley from?

My guess is...

Canada

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32%

United Kingdom

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22%

United States

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14%

I'm 96% certain Shelley is Female.

According to a dataset of 2079, the average Shelley is around 48 years old.


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Learn about the name Shelley

Meaning of the name Shelley

From a surname that was originally derived from a place name meaning "clearing on a bank" in Old English. Two famous bearers of the surname were Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), a romantic poet whose works include Adonais and Ozymandias , and Mary Shelley (1797-1851), his wife, the author of the horror story Frankenstein. As a feminine given name, it came into general use after the 1940s.

Characteristics of the name Shelley

OriginsEnglish
PronouncedSHEHL-ee
GenderUnisex
Traitsrefined, simple, classic, upper class, strange, nerdy, wholesome

How do we know this about Shelley

(and is it secret spies?)

We use a combination of data from the internet, and our own Machine Learning models to make these predictions.
In a gist, we use a Machine Learning model trained on a diverse global dataset of 100m+ names, and use it to predict different traits for a person based on first name!
NameGuessr guesses a person's nationality, age, and gender based on their name. We also try to give insightful info around the name's origin, name meaning, and name pronounciation.