Nela

given name · Czech · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Nela is a given name, with more bearers in the Czechia than in any other country. In Romania it is the 87th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Czech and Polish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From contraction of preposition en (“in”) + third-person feminine singular pronoun ela (“she, her, it”).

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 293◐
  • PLPoland1 in 1.8K
  • RORomania1 in 2K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈79K ●

across 15 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
90 ●

10K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 293 ◐

Czechia

Spellings & scripts●

NelaLatin · Czech●160K records
НелаCyrillic · Russian●1.5K records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Нела in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, MK North Macedonia, Nella in SE Sweden and Нэла in KZ Kazakhstan.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

From contraction of preposition en (“in”) + third-person feminine singular pronoun ela (“she, her, it”).

Sources 3

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Nela is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia#11936,484△1.4K rec.1 in 29336KNela90
PL Poland#29020,804△303 rec.1 in 1.8K21KNela61
RO Romania#8710,783△143 rec.1 in 2K11KNela18
FI Finland—4,394△2 rec.1 in 1.3K4.5K—2
US United States—2,376△874 rec.1 in 140K2.4KNela68
RU Russia—2,303611 rec.—#788Нела74
HR Croatia#4141,4453.3K rec.1 in 2.9K1.6KNela57
UA Ukraine—1,2321.2K rec.——Нела12
FR France—1,025—1 in 66K1K——
BG Bulgaria—766207 rec.——Nela34
ES Spain—761△170 rec.1 in 66K761Nela12
RS Serbia#461607329 rec.——Nela24

Roughly 36K people in Czechia bear this name (about 1 in 293). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Czech160K47%
  • Polish91K26%
  • Hungarian22K6%
  • Spanish20K6%
  • English17K5%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Czech160,24447%
Polish91,02226%
Hungarian22,0716%
Spanish19,5386%
English17,2185%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Nela is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name29K records spelled Nela5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Peru, Argentina, Venezuela

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French

    Also written Ñêlâ

  • English given name22K records spelled Nela11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United States, Germany, Austria

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Nélà, Néla, Nëlä, Nëlae

  • Indonesian given name4.5K records spelled Nela3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, India, Philippines, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Nela

  • a separate given name1.2K records spelled Nela2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Bolivia, United Kingdom

    Also written Nelá́

  • Hebrew given name791 records spelled Nela55 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, India, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hebrew, Hindi, Telugu

    Also written נילי, Neeli, Nili, Nule, Neelaa

  • Albanian given name483 records spelled Nela4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, India, Italy

    Also written Ñèlà, Nélà, Nélá

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Nela is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Portuguese, contraction of em ela (“in her”): feminine singular of nele

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Galician, a diminutive of the female given name Manoela

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In nxg, split, crack; cracked (as bamboo)

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In bnt-phu, to leak

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In kmb, Anel

    as a wordDiccionario Portuguez-Kimbundu

  • In Latvian, apdzīvota vieta Francijā, Augšfrancijas (līdz 2016. g. - Pikardijas) reģiona Sommas departamentā

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

01020301950200027 · 2019

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Nela in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1903–2025
Yearrecords
19035
19066
19075
19127
19135
19156
19167
191712
19186
19196
19206
19216
192211
19238
19245
192511
19266
19286
19309
19325
19395
19426
19437
19466
19488
19516
19528
19537
19555
19627
19645
19865
19975
20007
20015
20035
200410
200510
200617
200720
200816
200913
201016
201120
201211
201318
201416
201519
201615
20179
201821
201927
202017
202119
202215
202327
202414
202512

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 58 years between 1903–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1900195020002050Nela Martínez, b. 1912Nela Eržišnik, b. 1924Nela Kocsis, b. 1970Nela Panghy-Lee, b. 1980María Nela Prada, b. 1981Nela Kuburović, b. 1982Nela Hasanbegović, b. 1984Nela Riehl, b. 1985Nela Pocisková, b. 1990Nela The Little Reporter, b. 2006

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 74 sources across 38 countries.

Official registers attesting Nela
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—36K#110
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—21K#147
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202621K#147
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—18K#122
RO RomaniaDEPABD — name-day population snapshot202311K—
RO RomaniaDEPABD — resident population names202311K—
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)20211.6K—
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20211.4K#451
PL PolandMinistry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present)—910—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020831#14,176
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—761#3,456
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—700#1,750

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 552 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Nela?
We estimate roughly 79 thousand people bear Nela (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
In which country does Nela have the most bearers?
We estimate about 36 thousand people bear Nela in the Czechia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled nela.
Where is Nela most common?
Nela is densest in the Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 293 people carrying it.
How common is Nela compared with other names?
In the Czechia, Nela is the 119th most common given name of 28,899 given names recorded there.
Is Nela a male or female name?
Nela is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Nela mean?
Recorded meaning: From contraction of preposition en (“in”) + third-person feminine singular pronoun ela (“she, her, it”).
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nela” — the 119th most common given name in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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