Nelia

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Ნელია in GE Georgia.

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●

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Nelia is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Ukrainian given name56K records spelled Nelia59 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Kazakhstan

  Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Polish

  Also written Неля, Нэля, Nelja, Nelya, Нелиа

• French given name22K records spelled Nelia13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Philippines, Spain, United States

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Nélia, Nèlia, Neli-A, Nélïa, Ñeliã

• Indonesian given name4.0K records spelled Nelia4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, United States, Spain

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Nélia

• a separate given name1.6K records spelled Nelia4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Ukraine, Canada

  Also written Nėli︠a︡, Nélia, Neli︠a︡

• Finnish given name1.0K records spelled Nelia4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, Philippines, Estonia, Slovenia

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian

  Also written Nélia

40 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●

Nelia is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In German, weibl. Vom., Kurzform von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 141 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Elly den Haan-Groenb. 1918NLnot in their usual nameDutch mayor
• Nélia Paulab. 1930BRBrazilian actress
• Nelia Novoab. 1992DEGerman actress
• Nélia Barbosab. 1998FRFrench paracanoeist
• Nelia Székelyfilm editor

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 756 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Nelia?

We estimate roughly 17 thousand people bear Nelia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Nelia have the most bearers?

Nelia is most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is most often spelled nelia.

How common is Nelia compared with other names?

In the Philippines, Nelia is the 368th most common given name of 462,140 given names recorded there.

Is Nelia a male or female name?

Nelia 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 Nelia mean?

Recorded meaning: Nelia är en kortform av → Cornelia.