It's always made me think of a muscular, very athletic woman, and for me personally that's not a really positive image, so I don't care for it. I hope this doesn't offend any athletic females out there. It's strictly personal, due to the fact that in high school gym class I witnessed the non-athletic girls not being treated very nicely by the athletic girls.
Although it has occurred to me that I love
Callie and
Callie and
Kelly are very similar. Go figure.
As a teenager, I used to babysit for a little girl named
Kelly who would now be forty-seven years old. Yikes. I have no idea whether or not she turned out to be muscular and athletic, lol.
It just occurred to me that it
can be a boys' name, although I automatically thought "girl". I think I'd like it more as a boys' name if it hadn't once been popular for girls. I'm not of the "It doesn't matter,
Ashley,
Courtney,
Leslie, and
Kelly are still fine for boys" school of thought.