Nëlly
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nëlly is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country, where it is the 99th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Shortened from Nelly Duff, for puff, i.e. breath of life.
- ECEcuador1 in 449(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 530
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 707
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Nëlly itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 325 (measured from records)
- 1 in 449 (inferred from the name graph)
≈60,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nelly in PE Peru, VE Venezuela, CO Colombia and 2 more, נלי in FR France and Նելլի in AM Armenia.
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)
Shortened from Nelly Duff, for puff, i.e. breath of life.
Sources 4
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Nordic Names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nëlly 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #99 | ≈60,000 est. | ≈1 in 530 | — | Nelly | 81 |
| CO Colombia | #170 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 954 | 21 | Nelly | 115 |
| FR France | — | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 70K | נלי | 6 |
| VE Venezuela | #139 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 707 | — | Nelly | 53 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Nelly | 52 |
| EC Ecuador | #96 | 37,686 | 1 in 449 | 38K | Nelly | 46 |
| AM Armenia | #57 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 278 | 108 | Նելլի | 44 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia — Most Frequent Newborn Given Names by Sex, Armenian script, 2008-2020 + 2023. 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 Nëlly mean, and where does it come from?
- Shortened from Nelly Duff, for puff, i.e. breath of life. Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- Is Nëlly a male or female name?
- Nëlly 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 Nëlly have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 60 thousand people named Nëlly in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nelly.
- Where is Nëlly most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nëlly is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 449 people — even though Peru holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nëlly?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 37,686 people named Nëlly in 2024, about 1 in 449 residents.
- How common is Nëlly compared with other names?
- In Peru, Nëlly is the 99th most common given name of 254,284 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/n%C3%ABllyThe 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, “Nëlly” — the 99th most common given name in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.