Nelia

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Nelia: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Nelia: Recorded since 2013, it reached #187 in 2022, and it stood at #200 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
13times a registrar ranked it
13years from first to last
#187highest recorded position
1grouping it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2013–2023

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2013	#5742
2015	#4736
2016	#5785
2018	#5666
2019	#4001
2020	#3447
2021	#5581
2022	#3148
2023	#5687

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 9 of the 11 years from 2013 to 2023.

In 2023: #191 among girls in Norway, #5687 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 2013–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2013
First recorded at #5742 among girls in England and Wales in 2013 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2022–2025
Highest recorded position: #187 among girls in Norway, in 2022 (recorded 2022–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #200 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Nelia appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 9 years beginning in 2013, and has registered 37 births with the name.

Nelia across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Nelia's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#5742 (2013)	#3148 (2022)	#5687 (2023)	9 of 11	37 (2013–2023)	7 (2022)
Norway · Girls	#187 (2022)	#187 (2022)	#200 (2025)	4 of 4	89 (2022–2025)	26 (2023)

Nelia appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Names recorded by exactly 2 registrars

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 2013 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #187 in Norway in 2022.

Nelia's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3148	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3447	6	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4001	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4736	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#200	23	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#258	16	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#191	26	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#187	24	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 2013 and 2025, ranked in 11 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #187, first reached in 2022.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 26 births, registered in Norway in 2023.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2022, and 9 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

2decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 2 decades →
8 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
3separate stretches the record falls into3 separate stretches →
1 yearlongest absence inside the recorded periodA single year missing →
#200position in 2025, its most recent recorded year
9 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 6 to 10 years →
26births registered in its largest year, 202325 to 49 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Nella · #424, 20y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Cadain · #186, 10y
Breandan · #199, 13y
Sharan · #204, 16y
Fiontan · #207, 10y

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2010 and 2019.

Ruadh · #187, 12y
Cadain · #186, 10y
Mirha · #189, 13y
Everly · #190, 13y

Nelia was ranked #187 in Norway · Girls in 2022. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Nelia and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Nelia without appearing here.

Nelia moved ahead of

Karen Compare
In 2021 they stood at #5581 and #3192 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3148 and #4645.
Brittany Compare
In 2021 they stood at #5581 and #3519 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3148 and #3533.
Carmel Compare
In 2021 they stood at #5581 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3148 and #3533.

Moved ahead of Nelia

Arlo Compare
In 2015 they stood at #4736 and #5730 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #5785 and #4096.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 2013 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #187 in Norway in 2022. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

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What the data shows

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Nelia across 2 official records

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Nelia across 2 official records

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