Nellie
500
Babies in 2024
+748%
10-year change
2023
Peak · 509
-2%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Nellie
Nellie is a rising UK girl's name. Registrations in 2024 (500) are up 748% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Nellie reached its peak in 2023, when 509 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #97 for UK girls that year. Today's count is broadly in line with the peak.
Across 27 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 4,090 girls have been officially registered with the name Nellie in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 3,742 girls were registered with the name, starting from 59 in 2014 and ending at 500 in 2024.