Nelly
Recorded for both sexesMillennial2025 rank
#1,294
up +68 places
2025 births
173
up +5 births
All-time births
7,792
2% of them in 2025
More common than
97%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2007
- 208 births
- Best rank
- #625
- in 1882
- First recorded
- 1882
- #625 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1990
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 135 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 2007208#1,209Peak
- 2008195#1,278
- 2009194#1,263
- 2025173#1,294
- 2024168#1,362
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #625 in 1882 · peak births 208 in 2007
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 1% boys■ 99% girls
79 boys · 7,792 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Nelly has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.