# O'Kelly (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/okelly/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

An Irish surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,508 |
| US rank (2010) | 18,366 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 204,738 people |
| Change since 2000 | +1.9% (1,480 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named O'Kelly in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 86% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 9.3% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.4% |
| Two or more races | 1.5% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named O'Kelly in Belgium and Australia.

## People named O'Kelly

- Albéric O'Kelly de Galway, Belgian chess grandmaster (1911–1980)
- Gregory O'Kelly, Australian bishop

## Similar surnames

Oakley, O'Kelley, Ogle, Ousley, Oxley, Owsley.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.