Nëllë
surname · Latin script
Nëllë is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 790 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. Recorded meaning: from the personal name Nelle, a pet form of Cornelius.
- FIFinland1 in 47K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 77K
- DKDenmark1 in 89K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 47K (inferred from the name graph)
790 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nordic Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nëllë 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 790 | 1 in 421K | 783 | Nelle | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | 223 | 1 in 77K | 194 | — | 3 |
| FI Finland | 118 | 1 in 47K | 140 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 66 | 1 in 89K | 66 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 32 | 1 in 319K | 32 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nëllë 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Nëllë?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 790 people named Nëllë, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nelle. After it come Netherlands, Finland, Denmark and Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Nëllë most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nëllë 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 Nëllë?
- In the United States, the national register counted 790 people named Nëllë in 2020, about 1 in 421 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/n%C3%ABll%C3%ABThe 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, “Nëllë” — ranked 14793rd in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.