Nelly

girls:

7.4k births since 1882

#1884 (67th percentile)

boys:

64 births since 2002

#4522 (1st percentile)

overall:

7.5k births since 1882

#3113 (60th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nelly".

1882 2023 18822023

Key Statistics

Total Births
7,449
Peak Births
208
Peak Year
2007
First Recorded
1882
Peak Percentile
20.6%
Current Percentile
14.5%
Peak Rank
#221
Current Rank
#810
Female statistics
Total Births
64
Peak Births
9
Peak Year
2021
First Recorded
2002
Peak Percentile
0.4%
Current Percentile
0.0%
Peak Rank
#813
Current Rank
#911
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Nelly

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Nelly. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Nelly is pronounced as NEH-lee.

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Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Nelly. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Nelly, please vote using the thumbs up button.

nay-EH-lee (3 syllables)
7 names 4.7k births
N EY0 EH1 L IY0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like N EH1 L IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.