Nelci
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nelci is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script.
- BRBrazil1 in 11K◐
- ARArgentina1 in 270K
- UYUruguay1 in 96K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈19K ●
- Sources
- 80 ●
- 1 in 11K ◐
across 3 countries
11K records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 19,374△ | 7.4K rec. | 1 in 11K | 22K | Nelci | 80 |
| AR Argentina | 2,533 | 1.9K rec. | — | 2 | Nelci | 25 |
| PE Peru | 535 | 428 rec. | — | — | Nelci | 13 |
| US United States | 391 | 402 rec. | — | — | Nelci | 34 |
| CO Colombia | 381 | 227 rec. | — | — | Nelci | 24 |
| VE Venezuela | 346 | 315 rec. | — | — | Nelci | 9 |
| MX Mexico | 293 | 266 rec. | — | — | Nelci | 18 |
| PY Paraguay | 267 | 107 rec. | — | — | Nelci | 5 |
| UY Uruguay | 196 | 123 rec. | — | 1 | Nelci | 10 |
| HN Honduras | 108 | 108 rec. | — | — | Nelci | 3 |
| ES Spain | 23 | 41 rec. | — | — | Nelci | 13 |
| CR Costa Rica | 21 | 51 rec. | 1 in 243K | 21 | Nelci | 6 |
Roughly 19K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 11K). 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●
- Portuguese305K92%
- English20K6%
- Spanish4.8K1%
- Indonesian8081%
- ptbr951%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 304,844 | 92% |
| English | 19,629 | 6% |
| Spanish | 4,754 | 1% |
| Indonesian | 808 | 1% |
| ptbr | 95 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1930 | 30 |
| 1940 | 444 |
| 1950 | 2,797 |
| 1960 | 7,982 |
| 1970 | 14,534 |
| 1980 | 18,118 |
| 1990 | 19,105 |
| 2000 | 19,327 |
| 2022 | 19,374 |
BR IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) — 9 years between 1930–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 12 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 22K | #1,314 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 19K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 19K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 19K | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 19K | #605 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 18K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 17K | #1,089 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 15K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 6.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 5.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 3.6K | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 151 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Nelci?
- We estimate roughly 19 thousand people bear Nelci (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Nelci have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 19 thousand people bear Nelci in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled nelci.
- Where is Nelci most common?
- Nelci is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
- Is Nelci a male or female name?
- Nelci 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.
Query this name via API
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About this data
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, “Nelci”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.