Meaning and history
From the Irish surname Ó Caolaidhe, an Anglicized form of a name derived from the given name Caoladhe and ultimately from Irish caol meaning “slender.”
20062006: 407 births, rank #698
2007: 399 births, rank #730
2008: 335 births, rank #842
2009: 286 births, rank #936
2010: 214 births, rank #1,143
20112011: 185 births, rank #1,280
2012: 171 births, rank #1,364
2013: 149 births, rank #1,487
2014: 131 births, rank #1,634
2015: 99 births, rank #1,996
20162016: 86 births, rank #2,221
2017: 81 births, rank #2,283
2018: 85 births, rank #2,190
2019: 57 births, rank #2,891
2020: 67 births, rank #2,549
20212021: 73 births, rank #2,440
2022: 87 births, rank #2,174
2023: 66 births, rank #2,646
2024: 94 births, rank #2,053
20252025: 63 births, rank #2,719
Keely moved from #842 to #937 for girls between 2008 and 2009. Its highest annual birth count came in 1997, with 555 births.