# Nela (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/nela/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 597 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 597 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 862, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 20 | 6,503 |
| 2012 | 11 | 10,227 |
| 2013 | 18 | 6,943 |
| 2014 | 16 | 7,550 |
| 2015 | 19 | 6,647 |
| 2016 | 15 | 7,883 |
| 2017 | 9 | 11,361 |
| 2018 | 21 | 5,953 |
| 2019 | 27 | 5,001 |
| 2020 | 17 | 6,843 |
| 2021 | 19 | 6,344 |
| 2022 | 15 | 7,541 |
| 2023 | 27 | 4,962 |
| 2024 | 14 | 7,859 |
| 2025 | 12 | 8,718 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 22 | 1,374 |
| 2012 | 29 | 1,150 |
| 2013 | 33 | 1,075 |
| 2014 | 44 | 859 |
| 2015 | 47 | 809 |
| 2016 | 62 | 676 |
| 2017 | 69 | 609 |
| 2018 | 70 | 587 |
| 2019 | 79 | 513 |
| 2020 | 60 | 631 |
| 2021 | 78 | 521 |
| 2022 | 56 | 671 |
| 2023 | 45 | 794 |
| 2024 | 50 | 751 |
| 2025 | 45 | 807 |

## People named Nela

- Nela Eržišnik, Croatian actress and comedian (1922-2007)
- Nela Hasanbegović, Bosnian artist
- Nela Martínez, Ecuadorian communist, political militant, activist, and writer
- María Nela Prada, Bolivian politician

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.