How Many People Are Named Nelle?
people named Nelle are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 502,624 people in the US has this name
Based on 5,794 babies named Nelle in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
169 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of NELL.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Nelle in English. Counting Nelle and these spellings together, about 6,556 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Nelle in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Nelle alive today is about 38 years old, and 54% are under 30. Half of them were between 5 and 74 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Nelle first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1917, to 169 babies. In 2025, 33 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Nelle has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #175, in 1885. In 2025 it ranked #4,324.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #4,324 |
| Best rank | #175 (1885) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #528 in the 1910s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Nelle alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Nelle were born in New York than in any other state: about 11 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Nelle was given 10.1 times as often in Tennessee, 5.6 times in Georgia and 4 times in South Carolina.
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