Nelï
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nelï is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Georgia it is the 75th most common given name.
- BRBrazil1 in 7.1K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 17K
- ARArgentina≈1 in 22K
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 Nelï 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 149 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
29,715 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Neli in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, GE Georgia and 3 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 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nelï 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 | #800 | 29,715 | 1 in 7.1K | 38K | Neli | 91 |
| GE Georgia | #75 | 10,723as ნელი | 1 in 373 | 11K | Neli | 31 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 60 | Neli | 40 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Neli | 32 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Neli | 14 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 1,124 | 1 in 1.9K | 1.2K | — | 9 |
| HN Honduras | #839 | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Neli | 9 |
| MD Moldova | — | 496 | 1 in 6.8K | 496 | — | 2 |
29,715 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); e-services.md — living population register. 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 Nelï a male or female name?
- Nelï 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 Nelï have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 30 thousand people named Nelï, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled neli.
- Where is Nelï most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nelï is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 1.9 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nelï?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 29,715 people named Nelï in 2022, about 1 in 7.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Nelï compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Nelï is the 800th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nelï?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nel%C3%AFThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Nelï” — the 800th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.