Nelda
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Feminine form of Neil or Niall
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈnɛɫdə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nelda is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- HNHonduras≈1 in 9.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 11K
- USUnited States1 in 30K
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 Nelda 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 303 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.3K (inferred from the name graph)
10,907 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Honduras, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Feminine form of Neil or Niall.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nelda 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 | — | 10,907 | 1 in 30K | 11K | Nelda | 303 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Nelda | 38 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 8,480as Nelida | 1 in 3.4K | 8.5K | Nelda | 11 |
| UY Uruguay | #289 | 4,902as Nelida | 1 in 691 | 4.9K | Nelda | 16 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,685as Nelida | 1 in 19K | 2.8K | Nelda | 27 |
| GT Guatemala | #625 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Nelda | 7 |
| HN Honduras | #661 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Nelda | 14 |
| LV Latvia | — | 197 | 1 in 9.5K | 198 | Nelda | 9 |
10,907 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; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Nelda is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Old English; of the elder tree
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In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Nelda E. Wrightb. 1901paleontologist
- Nelda Speaksb. 1943USAmerican politician
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)
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 47 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 11K | #2,333 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 906 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 901 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1938 | 567 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1941 | 554 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 198 | #897 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 197 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 43 | #31,614 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 41 | #14,812 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 17 | #2,333 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1935 | 5 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Nelda mean, and where does it come from?
- Feminine form of Neil or Niall. Recorded by Irish first names.
- Is Nelda a male or female name?
- Nelda 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.
- How do you pronounce Nelda?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈnɛɫdə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Nelda have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Nelda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nelda.
- How common is the name Nelda?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,907 people named Nelda in 2020, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
- How common is Nelda compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Nelda is the 289th most common given name of 12,212 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nelda?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/neldaThe 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, “Nelda” — the 289th most common given name in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.