Given name & surname
Shealy
“descendant of Sealbhach”
Shealy is a feminine given name from Irish, meaning “descendant of Sealbhach.”
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Irish Ó Sealbhaig (“descendant of Sealbhach”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1992. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Shealy through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 34
- 0 boys · 34 girls
- Most popular year
- 2001
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2007. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 7 in 2001. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 117 as a first name in 2020; 4,355 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Shealy’s family of names
In English usage, Shealy as a surname has a related form in SHILEY. In English usage, Shealy has a related form in SHILEY.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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