Nelli
given name · Spanish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nelli is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. In Uruguay it is the 60th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and Finnish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: patronymic from the personal name Nello, a short form of a personal name formed with the hypocoristic suffix -ello following the final consonant -n, for example Antonello, Brunello, Giovannello.
- ECEcuador1 in 449◐
- UYUruguay1 in 570
- PEPeru1 in 870
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈191K ●
- 6 ●
- Sources
- 298 ●
- 1 in 449 ◐
across 15 countries
recorded for this name
829K records
Official registry-verified
Ecuador
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Nelly in AR Argentina, PE Peru, VE Venezuela and 13 more and נלי in FR France, IL Israel, RU Russia.
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●
patronymic from the personal name Nello, a short form of a personal name formed with the hypocoristic suffix -ello following the final consonant -n, for example Antonello, Brunello, Giovannello.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #324 | 335,548 | 239K rec. | — | 624 | Nelly | 71 |
| PE Peru | #111 | 259,412 | 206K rec. | — | — | Nelly | 72 |
| VE Venezuela | #148 | 173,397 | 71K rec. | — | — | Nelly | 54 |
| MX Mexico | #321 | 122,139 | 92K rec. | — | 353 | Nelly | 168 |
| CL Chile | #207 | 75,196 | 4.4K rec. | — | 7 | Nelly | 74 |
| FR France | — | 70,450△ | 301 rec. | 1 in 963 | 70K | נלי | 5 |
| CO Colombia | #158 | 57,093 | 29K rec. | — | 21 | Nelly | 109 |
| EC Ecuador | #133 | 37,686△ | 1.1K rec. | 1 in 449 | 38K | Nelly | 44 |
| UY Uruguay | #60 | 33,034 | 21K rec. | — | 1 | Nelly | 42 |
| BR Brazil | — | 29,715△ | 7K rec. | 1 in 7.1K | 38K | Nelly | 89 |
| US United States | — | 26,191 | 54K rec. | 1 in 13K | 26K | Nelly | 298 |
| PH Philippines | #928 | 22,089 | 20K rec. | — | — | Nelly | 49 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Spanish27K23%
- Finnish21K18%
- Ukrainian14K12%
- German9K8%
- Portuguese6.7K6%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish | 27,161 | 23% |
| Finnish | 21,098 | 18% |
| Ukrainian | 13,567 | 12% |
| German | 8,984 | 8% |
| Portuguese | 6,697 | 6% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Nelli is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, forma plural de Nello
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In German, weibl. Vom., Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In nci, Something true; genuine.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In olo, four
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nah, Veras no burlas
as a wordVocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1977 | 5 |
| 1979 | 5 |
| 1994 | 5 |
| 1996 | 5 |
| 1998 | 6 |
| 2000 | 6 |
| 2001 | 10 |
| 2002 | 7 |
| 2003 | 9 |
| 2004 | 7 |
| 2005 | 7 |
| 2006 | 15 |
| 2007 | 14 |
| 2008 | 19 |
| 2009 | 12 |
| 2010 | 13 |
| 2011 | 15 |
| 2012 | 10 |
| 2013 | 13 |
| 2014 | 11 |
| 2015 | 9 |
| 2016 | 7 |
| 2017 | 11 |
| 2018 | 15 |
| 2019 | 22 |
| 2020 | 19 |
| 2021 | 25 |
| 2022 | 20 |
| 2023 | 19 |
| 2024 | 19 |
| 2025 | 25 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 31 years between 1977–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Nelli Shkolnikovab. 1928AURussian musician (1928–2010)
- Nelli Abramovab. 1940RUSoviet volleyball player
- Nelli Feryabnikovab. 1949RUOlympic medalist in basketball
- Nellyb. 1951EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian actress
- Nelli Tarakanovab. 1954UASoviet rower
- Nellie Kimb. 1957RUnot in their usual nameSoviet-Russian artistic gymnast (born 1957)
- Nelli Coomanb. 1964NLDutch sprinter
- Nelli Palomäkib. 1981FIFinnish photographer
- Nelli Korovkinab. 1989RUassociation football player
- Nelli Matulab. 1995FIFinnish singer
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 69 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 5.2K | #649 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5K | #583 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 4.9K | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 2.6K | #2,557 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.7K | #8,610 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 900 | #360 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 648 | #591 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 648 | #591 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 624 | — |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 590 | #254 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 513 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 507 | #591 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 432 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Nelli?
- We estimate roughly 191 thousand people bear Nelli (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
- In which country does Nelli have the most bearers?
- Nelli is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled nelly.
- Where is Nelli most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nelli is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 449 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Nelli compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Nelli is the 324th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
- Is Nelli a male or female name?
- Nelli 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 Nelli mean?
- Recorded meaning: patronymic from the personal name Nello, a short form of a personal name formed with the hypocoristic suffix -ello following the final consonant -n, for example Antonello, Brunello, Giovannello.
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nelli” — the 324th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.