I have a meeting this afternoon with a person whose first name is Keely. I’ve never come across this name before. Should I be expecting a man or a woman?
I am not sure you can assume much of anything.
www.keely.com belongs to a woman by that name.
OTOH, I got burned yesterday when Cary showed up to meet me at the office. I was wondering how hot she would be like I always do just based on e-mails and IM’s (just a diversion). He wasn’t hot at all and I definitely don’t swing that way.
The only Keely I know is a very famous female jazz singer named [ulr=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keely_Smith]Keely Smith.
erm…Keely Smith
And her real name isn’t Keely - it’s Dorothy - that’s her real surname and her real stage name.
Well Keely Hazell is most definitely a woman. Google away. Probably not worksafe.
…but what a phenomenal way to lose your job! 
She spells it “Keeley” however. Still, bonus points. I went to high school with two girls who were cousins: Katherine Keeley {lastname} and Keeley Kennedy {lastname}. It was a family name only used for girls.
According to this website:
Keely is a modestly common girl’s name and a rare boy’s name.
I hope their last names didn’t start with a K.
In the 1930 U.S. Census, about 196 people had the first name Keeley (assuming the name Kelley wasn’t misread by the indexers as Keeley). Slightly more than half were men.
No. In fact I wouldn’t give it to a dog.
It can be either. To judge from the IMDb, it’s more common as a woman’s name. The IMDb lists the following actresses named Keely or Keeley:
Keely Armistead
Keely Barr
Keely Beresford
Keely Bond
Keely Carter
Keely Christian
Keely Comstock
Keely Field
Keely Janes
Keely Jones
Keely Macarow
Keely Moll
Keely Purvis
Keely Rusk
Keely Sheehan
Keely Sims
Keely Shaye Smith
Keely Smith
Keely Thomas
Keely Watson (II)
Keely Webb
Keely Williams
Keely Wright
Keeley Coxon
Keeley Fawcett
Keeley Flanders
Keeley Forsyth
Keeley Gainey
Keeley Marie Gallagher
Keeley Gamble
Keeley Hall
Keeley Harland
Keeley Hawes
Keeley Hazell
Keeley Hiatt
Keeley Johnson
Keeley Linder
Keeley Locke
Keeley Mills
Keeley O’Hara.
The IMDb lists only four actors named Keely, and none named Keeley:
Keely Berrios
Keely Lane
Keely Watson (I)
Keely Watson (III)
There’s a woman at my office named “Keely”, FWIW.
My last gf’s name was Keely. She said that it was an irish name. I so called her Kelly when we first met (and she seems like a Kelly, anyway). I wonder if she still thinks about me?
Probably.
Popularity of Keeley as a Female name (rank in top 1000 names of females born in the U.S.)
2002 987
2001 Not in top 1000
2000 991
1999 982
1998 Not in top 1000
1997 903
Keeley is not in the top 1000 male names for any year of birth in the last 15 years.
Over the past 15 years, Keeley is more common as a female name in the U.S.
Source
One never knows, does one?
Expect the unexpected.
There does not same to be any restrictions as to what names may be given to a boy or girl baby anymore.
Appers that parents get a book of names for boys and girls then choose from either list regardless of sex.