My Name

Kelly is a very preppy name in the United States. While I don’t feel like a preppy person, I think my name projects a certain assumption onto me when people first meet me. I guess you only take the associations you know about a name already and can’t help but I wonder if all Oprah’s are the same.
When I think about famous pop culture Kelly’s, I think Kelly Kapowski, Kelly Bundy and Kelly Kapoor. All of these Kelly’s are very surface level characters that use their sexuality and charm to get by. I don’t know if they made Kapowski smart, but they made Bundy dumb and they made Kapoor shallow. When googling other famous Kelly’s I got “Kelly Blue Book” and decided just to stop.

Outside of the US, the name is most popular in Ireland. The meaning of Kelly is "brave warrior".It is also of English origin, where its meaning is "bright headed". 

I don’t have the wrong name— I’m just in the wrong place for it. From now on if people assume I’m ditzy because of my name, I will assure them “I’m not I’m bright headed!” which will 100% make them feel like they made the right call.