Nelly

Variation of Nellie and Nell

"light"

Nelly Origin and Meaning

Variation of Cornelia

Nelly Rank in US Top 1000

# 940 in the US

Nelly Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 942 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Nelly

• 942 Nameberry 2025
• 358 Unique 2024
• 437 England 2024
• 211 Germany 2016

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Famous People Named Nelly

• Nelly Kim Furtado Canadian singer,songwriter
• Nelly Artin Kalfayan Egyptian singer, actress and comedienne
• Nelly Arcan (born Isabelle Fortier) Canadian novelist
• Leonie "Nelly" Sachs German poet and playwright
• Nelly Adamson Landry Belgian tennis player
• Nelly Olin French politician
• Ellen Lawless "Nelly" Ternan English actress; mistress of writer Charles Dickens
• Nelly Thüring Swedish politician
• Nelly Viennot French football referee
• Nelly Wicky Swiss politician
• Nelly Anna "Nel" Benschop Dutch poet
• Penelope Scotland "Nelly" Disick daughter of reality TV personalities Scott Disick and Kourtney Kardashian
• Nelly May Lois Cook (b. 2010) daughter of DJ Fatboy Slim and TV personality Zoe Ball

The name Nelly in Pop Culture

• Ellen "Nelly" Dean main narrator in Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights"
• Nelly Welch character in G. A. Henty's "True to the Old Flag"
• Nelly character in "The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod" by Heather Brewer
• Nelly Yuki character on TV's "Gossip Girl"
• Nelly Hardy character in G. A. Henty's "Facing Death"