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
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #186 among girls — 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 — more than any year before or since.
  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.