Nelli
- #5,099 for girls in 2025, 25 births
- Peak · girls
- 2021 · 25 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 385since 1977
Nelli over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Nelli has never cracked the top 5,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,099 | 25 |
| 2024 | #6,167 | 19 |
| 2023 | #6,169 | 19 |
| 2022 | #5,984 | 20 |
| 2021 | #5,091 | 25 |
| 2020 | #6,083 | 19 |
| 2019 | #5,612 | 22 |
| 2018 | #7,409 | 15 |
| 2017 | #9,341 | 11 |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 |
| 2014 | #9,517 | 11 |
| 2013 | #8,580 | 13 |
| 2012 | #10,429 | 10 |
| 2011 | #7,783 | 15 |
| 2010 | #8,701 | 13 |
| 2009 | #9,379 | 12 |
| 2008 | #6,799 | 19 |
| 2007 | #8,520 | 14 |
| 2006 | #7,868 | 15 |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 |
| 2004 | #12,761 | 7 |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 |
| 2002 | #12,187 | 7 |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 |
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| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 |
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| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 |
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| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 |
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| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 |
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First appearance
1977
The first year at least five girls were named Nelli! It came in at #9,652, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1977–1997, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Nelli is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Nelli in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 1,068 spots since 2024 (#6,167 → #5,099)
- 984 spots since 2020 (#6,083 → #5,099)
- 5,767 spots since 2015 (#10,866 → #5,099)
Rise & fade · girls
44 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 2021 at #5,091 (25 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 64,291
- Highest: 1 in 64,291 girls born in 2025 were named Nelli (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #5,091 in 2021, was only 1 in 65,634 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2020s
- 33.0% of all girls named Nelli (127) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 10 | #9,652 (1977) | #9,931 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 16 | #12,426 (1998) | #13,125 |
| 2000s | 106 | #6,799 (2008) | #10,345 |
| 2010s | 126 | #5,612 (2019) | #9,111 |
| 2020s | 127 | #5,091 (2021) | #5,766 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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