Nelly
99
Babies in 2024
+80%
10-year change
2019
Peak · 211
-29%
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 Nelly
Nelly appears in the official UK girls' name list for 2024, ranked #432 with 99 girls registered in England & Wales.
Nelly reached its peak in 2019, when 211 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #234 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 99 represents 47% of the peak.
Across 24 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 1,831 girls have been officially registered with the name Nelly in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 1,461 girls were registered with the name, starting from 55 in 2014 and ending at 99 in 2024.