Nelly
Where Nelly comes from
Nelly hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.
- Vowel-ended
Along the way
- 1882Debut at its peak, #596#596 among girls with 10 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
- 1884The fadeThe first year with half the peak's births.
- 1891Nelly Sachs bornJewish German poet and playwright
- 1978Nelly Furtado bornPortuguese-Canadian singer and songwriter
In the dictionary
No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.
Namesakes
- Nelly Sachs · Jewish German poet and playwright, 1891–1970
- Nelly Furtado · Portuguese-Canadian singer and songwriter, born 1978
- Nelly Ciobanu · Moldovan singer, born 1974
- Nelly Kaplan · French filmmaker and writer, 1931–2020
- Nelly Korda · American golfer, born 1998
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.