Nélle

surname · Latin script

Nélle is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from the personal name Nelle, a pet form of Cornelius.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 47K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 77K
  • DKDenmark1 in 89K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

790 people, 2020

Sources
34 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 47K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Nelle in US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from the personal name Nelle, a pet form of Cornelius.

Sources 2

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nélle counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Nélle is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States7901 in 421K783Nelle34
NL Netherlands2231 in 77K194—1
FI Finland1181 in 47K140—1
DK Denmark661 in 89K66——
SE Sweden321 in 319K32——
IS Iceland11 in 351K1——

790 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Nélle is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, Algeria, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia

    Also written Nelle, Nělle, Nëllë, Nęllê, Nèlle

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Nélle under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Nélle mean, and where does it come from?
from the personal name Nelle, a pet form of Cornelius. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Nordic Names.
In which country does Nélle have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 790 people named Nélle, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nelle.
Where is Nélle most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nélle is densest in Finland — about 1 in 47 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Nélle?
In the United States, the national register counted 790 people named Nélle in 2020, about 1 in 421 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nélle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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