How Many People Are Named Nelida?
people named Nelida are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 244,831 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,520 babies named Nelida in Social Security records from 1933 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
42 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Created by French author Marie d'Agoult for her semi-autobiographical novel 'Nélida' (1846), written under the name Daniel Stern. It was probably an anagram of her pen name DANIEL.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Nelida in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Nelida alive today is about 45 years old, and 52% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 32 and 60 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Nelida first appears in the records in 1933 and was given most often in 1964, to 42 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.
Babies given the name each year, 1933 to 2024
🏆 Rank History
Nelida has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,826, in 1964.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #1,826 (1964) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #2,072 in the 1960s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Nelida alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Nelida were born in New York than in any other state: about 301 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Nelida was given 5.9 times as often in New York, 3.4 times in California and 2.6 times in New Jersey.
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