Nélma
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nélma is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 13K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 25K
- AOAngola≈1 in 6.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)
16,088 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Angola, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nelma in BR Brazil, PH Philippines, AO Angola and 2 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nélma 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 16,088 | 1 in 13K | 18K | Nelma | 102 |
| AO Angola | #282 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | 2 | Nelma | 15 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Nelma | 22 |
| MZ Mozambique | #524 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Nelma | 6 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 324K | — | Nelma | 6 |
| FI Finland | — | 202 | 1 in 28K | 339 | — | 2 |
16,088 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Nélma a male or female name?
- Nélma is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Nélma have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 16 thousand people named Nélma, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nelma.
- How common is the name Nélma?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 16,088 people named Nélma in 2022, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Nélma compared with other names?
- In Angola, Nélma is the 282nd most common given name of 11,132 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nélma?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/n%C3%A9lmaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Nélma” — the 282nd most common given name in Angola. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.