Nelya
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nelya is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Mayotte it is the 75th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Russian, written in the Latin script.
- FRFrance1 in 14K◐
- YTMayotte1 in 545
- TMTurkmenistan1 in 76K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈5.6K ●
- Sources
- 84 ●
- 1 in 14K ◐
across 7 countries
2.7K records
Official registry-verified
France
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | 4,740△ | 1.5K rec. | 1 in 14K | 4.7K | Nelya | 84 |
| US United States | — | 603 | 307 rec. | 1 in 552K | 603 | Nelya | 29 |
| RU Russia | — | 186 | 87 rec. | — | — | Nelya | 10 |
| PL Poland | — | 134 | — | 1 in 286K | 134 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 121△ | 15 rec. | 1 in 413K | 121 | Nelya | 8 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 119 | 12 rec. | — | — | Nelya | 26 |
| PE Peru | — | 116 | 85 rec. | — | — | Nelya | 14 |
| MX Mexico | — | 101 | 72 rec. | — | — | Nelya | 22 |
| YT Mayotte | #75 | 100 | 0 rec. | — | 20 | Nelya | 1 |
| UA Ukraine | — | 81 | 69 rec. | — | — | Nelya | 11 |
| TM Turkmenistan | — | 74 | 74 rec. | — | — | Nelya | 3 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 57 | 52 rec. | — | — | Nelya | 9 |
Roughly 4.7K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 14K). 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●
- French22K72%
- Russian2.1K7%
- English2.1K7%
- Spanish8633%
- Polish5522%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 22,154 | 72% |
| Russian | 2,135 | 7% |
| English | 2,098 | 7% |
| Spanish | 863 | 3% |
| Polish | 552 | 2% |
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●
Nelya 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.
Russian: pet form of both YELENA and NINEL .
as a word
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 |
|---|---|
| 2013 | 7 |
| 2014 | 10 |
| 2015 | 10 |
| 2016 | 10 |
| 2017 | 15 |
| 2018 | 23 |
| 2019 | 25 |
| 2020 | 20 |
| 2021 | 37 |
| 2022 | 24 |
| 2023 | 20 |
| 2024 | 28 |
CA Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) — 12 years between 2013–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Nelya Shtepab. 1962UAformer mayor of Sloviansk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine
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 37 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 4.7K | #143 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 603 | #17,966 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 134 | #1,295 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 134 | #1,295 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 121 | #13,568 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 114 | #6,321 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 40 | #11,373 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 40 | #10,631 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2021 | 37 | — |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2024 | 33 | #284 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 33 | #1,314 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 28 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 · 106 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Nelya?
- We estimate roughly 5.6 thousand people bear Nelya (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Nelya have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 4.7 thousand people bear Nelya in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled nelya.
- How common is Nelya compared with other names?
- In Mayotte, Nelya is the 75th most common given name of 1,095 given names recorded there.
- Is Nelya a male or female name?
- Nelya 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, “Nelya” — the 75th most common given name in Mayotte. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.