Nelle

Where Nelle comes from

From Ellen spelled backwards. Popularized by author Harper Lee, whose first name Nelle was so derived from her grandmother’s.
— Wiktionary's entry for Nelle
  • Vowel-ended
Nelle through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #186 among girls, with 65 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1883
    Nelle Wilson Reagan born
    mother of Ronald Reagan
  3. 1884
    Nelle Peters born
    American architect
  4. 1885
    Peak, #175
    109 babies named Nelle, its best rank.
  5. 1903
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #435.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Nelle Wilson Reagan · mother of Ronald Reagan, 1883–1962
  • Nelle Peters · American architect, 1884–1974
  • Nelle Richmond Eberhart · American poet and songwriter, 1871–1944

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.