Nelis
given name · Latin script
Meaning: —žr. Jonas
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nelis/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nelis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country.
- HNHonduras≈1 in 8.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 9.4K
- VEVenezuela1 in 12K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Venezuela (measured from records)
- Sources
- 73 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.9K (inferred from the name graph)
2,337 people
Highest-authority source
Honduras, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
—žr. Jonas
Sources 1
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nelis 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | — | 2,337 | 1 in 12K | 2.3K | Nelis | 12 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Nelis | 23 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,051 | 1 in 16K | 1.1K | Nelis | 10 |
| HN Honduras | #577 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | — | Nelis | 6 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #520 | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Nelis | 11 |
| UY Uruguay | #377 | 362 | 1 in 9.4K | 362 | Nelis | 9 |
2,337 people counted by asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996). 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: asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Nelis is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
reduced form of Cornelius or Daniels.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
reduced form of McNelis.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Arie Frederik Nelis Lekkerkerkerb. 1913NLDutch minister, university professor and theologian (1913-1972)
- Nelis J. Saundersb. 1923USAmerican politician (1923-2012)
- Albert Verheijb. 1925NLnot in their usual namechild (1925-1928)
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 40 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 698 | #2,610 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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 Nelis mean, and where does it come from?
- —žr. Jonas Recorded by Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames).
- How do you pronounce Nelis?
- A machine transcription gives /nelis/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Nelis a male or female name?
- Nelis 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 Nelis have the most bearers?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Nelis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nelis.
- How common is the name Nelis?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 2,337 people named Nelis, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Nelis compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Nelis is the 377th most common given name of 12,212 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nelis?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nelisThe 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, “Nelis” — the 377th most common given name in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.