Nelli

given name · Latin script

Meaning: patronymic from the personal name Nello, a short form of a personal name formed with the hypocoristic suffix -ello following the final consonant -n, for example Antonello, Brunello, Giovannello

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/neli/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Nelli 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.

rarermore common
  • AMArmenia≈1 in 278as Նելլի(inferred from the name graph)
  • ECEcuador1 in 449as Nelly
  • PEPeru≈1 in 530as Nelly

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 Nelli 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)

≈60,000 named Nelly, est.

6 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
325 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

NellyLatin(measured from records)
נליHebrew(measured from records)
ՆելլիArmenian(measured from records)
넬리Hangul(measured from records)
ნელლიGeorgian(measured from records)
ΝέλλυGreek(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)

patronymic from the personal name Nello, a short form of a personal name formed with the hypocoristic suffix -ello following the final consonant -n, for example Antonello, Brunello, Giovannello.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nelli 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 Nelli is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PE Peru#99≈60,000 est.≈1 in 530—Nelly81
CO Colombia#170≈51,000 est.≈1 in 95421Nelly115
FR France—≈41,000 est.≈1 in 1.7K70Kנלי6
VE Venezuela#139≈40,000 est.≈1 in 707—Nelly53
PH Philippines—≈40,000 est.≈1 in 2.8K—Nelly52
EC Ecuador#9637,686as Nelly1 in 44938KNelly46
AM Armenia#57≈11,000 est.≈1 in 278108Նելլի44
FI Finland—4,8671 in 1.1K5.2KNelli11

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; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)

Nelli is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian given name91 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian

    Also written Нелли, Нэлли, Неллі, Neli, Нели

  • Finnish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Estonia, Russia

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Nėlli

  • German given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Nélli, Nellì, Néllī

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Nėlli, Nèlli, Nellī, Nellì

  • Italian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Russia, Spain

    Also written Nellì, Nellí

46 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Nelli is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, forma plural de Nello

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In German, weibl. Vom., Kurzform von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In nci, Something true; genuine.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In olo, four

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In nah, Veras no burlas

    as a wordVocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Nelli Shkolnikova, b. 1928Nelli Abramova, b. 1940Nelli Feryabnikova, b. 1949Nelly, b. 1951Nelli Tarakanova, b. 1954Nellie Kim, b. 1957Nelli Cooman, b. 1964Nelli Palomäki, b. 1981Nelli Korovkina, b. 1989Nelli Matula, b. 1995

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHola Nelli,Hi Nelli, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 72 sources across 33 countries.

Official registers attesting Nelli
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—5.2K#325
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—4.9K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20221—

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Nelli?
A machine transcription gives /neli/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What does the name Nelli mean, and where does it come from?
patronymic from the personal name Nello, a short form of a personal name formed with the hypocoristic suffix -ello following the final consonant -n, for example Antonello, Brunello, Giovannello. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Nelli have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 60 thousand people named Nelly in Peru, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Nelli most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nelli is densest in Finland — about 1 in 1.1 thousand people — even though Peru holds more of our records for it.
Is Nelli a male or female name?
Nelli 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.
What are other forms of the name Nelli?
In the etymology graph, Elena, Helen and Elaine are forms of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Nelli?
In Finland, the national register counted 4,867 people named Nelli, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
How common is Nelli compared with other names?
In Peru, Nelli is the 99th most common given name of 254,284 given names recorded there.

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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, “Nelli” — the 99th most common given name in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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