Nelicia

given name · Latin script

A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025

/nɛlisjɐ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated

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Nelicia is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 196 people, counted by IBGE in 2022.

  • GYGuyana1 in 150K(measured from records)
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 950Kfew records
  • PEPeru≈1 in 1Mfew records

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

196 people, 2022

Record sources
38 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 150K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

How to pronounce Nelicia

  • Portuguese:/nɛlisjɐ/(machine-generated) model-generated
  • Spanish:/neliθja/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Nelicia 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 Nelicia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1961 in 1.1M211Nelicia19
PH Philippines≈120 est.≈1 in 949K—Nelicia5
ZA South Africa≈57 est.≈1 in 1.1M—Nelicia7
PE Peru≈34 est.≈1 in 1M—Nelicia11
US United States≈28 est.≈1 in 12M—Nelicia38
GY Guyana51 in 150K5Nelicia1

196 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); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)

Nelicia is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Congo - Kinshasa, France

    Also written Nèlicia, Nélicia

15 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.

How to address them

(machine-generated)
InformalOlá Nelicia,Hi Nelicia, (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)

10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.

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

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Nelicia?
It depends on the language: in Portuguese /nɛlisjɐ/; in Spanish /neliθja/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Is Nelicia a male or female name?
Nelicia is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)).
Which countries have the most people named Nelicia?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 196 people named Nelicia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nelicia. After it come Philippines, South Africa, Peru and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Nelicia most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nelicia is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 150 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Nelicia?
In Brazil, the national register counted 196 people named Nelicia in 2022, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.

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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, “Nelicia” — ranked 13546th in Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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