Neli
given name · Latin script
Meaning: synonym of nel (no; no way; nope)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nɛli/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Neli 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 Neli 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)
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)
synonym of nel (no; no way; nope)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Neli 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Neli 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 Finnish, A four-beat gait, the gallop.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, four
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dag, the lower millstone
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
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)
- Neli Nenovab. 1929GESoviet film director (1929–2016)
- Neli Garrido de Rodríguezb. 1942ARArgentinian writer and journalist
- Nelly Ognyanovab. 1956BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian legal scholar
- Neli Kodričb. 1964SIchildren's writer
- Neli Pasichnykb. 1968UAUkrainian screenwriter
- Neli Botevab. 1974BGbadminton player
- Neli Irmanb. 1986SISlovenian handball player
- Neli Sabourb. 1993USAmerican stage actor
- Neli GlavašSIresearcher
- Neli VintarSIresearcher
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 66 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 38K | #934 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 30K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 29K | #829 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 1.2K | #359 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 1.1K | #193 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 642 | #829 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 496 | #466 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) | 2024 | 26 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 20 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2010 | 2 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 2 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Neli mean, and where does it come from?
- synonym of nel (no; no way; nope) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Neli?
- A machine transcription gives /nɛli/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Neli a male or female name?
- Neli 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 Neli?
- In the etymology graph, Ana, Ann and Nancy are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Neli have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 30 thousand people named Neli, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled neli.
- Where is Neli most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Neli 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 Neli?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 29,715 people named Neli in 2022, about 1 in 7.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Neli compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Neli is the 800th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Neli?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/neliThe 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, “Neli” — the 800th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.