Nella

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Nella: Recorded since 2002, it reached #424 in 2019, and it stood at #631 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
28times a registrar ranked it
23years from first to last
#424highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2002–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2002	#4137
2005	#4798
2007	#2233
2008	#2721
2009	#2759
2010	#1731
2011	#1438
2012	#1809
2013	#1587
2014	#1016
2015	#1057
2016	#1031
2017	#870
2018	#843
2019	#651
2020	#710
2021	#720
2022	#826
2023	#754
2024	#736

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 20 of the 23 years from 2002 to 2024.

In 2024: #631 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #736 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2002–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2002
First recorded at #4137 among girls in England and Wales in 2002 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #736 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Nella appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 20 years beginning in 2002, and has registered 599 births with the name.

Nella 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.

Nella'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	#4137 (2002)	#651 (2019)	#736 (2024)	20 of 23	599 (2002–2024)	60 (2019)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#937 (2011)	#631 (2024)	#631 (2024)	7 of 14	28 (2011–2024)	5 (2022)

Nella by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Nella in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	32	5 of 10	6
2010s	322	10 of 10	32
2020sbusiest	245	5 of 10	49

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 49 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Nella appears in

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2002 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #424 in Northern Ireland in 2019.

Nella'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
2024	England and Wales	female	#736	51	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#754	47	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#826	43	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#720	52	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#710	52	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#651	60	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#843	44	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#870	44	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1031	34	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1057	33	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1016	35	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1587	19	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1809	16	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1438	21	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1731	16	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2759	8	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2721	8	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2233	10	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#424	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#631	5	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#634	5	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#871	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#751	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 2002 and 2024, ranked in 20 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #424, first reached in 2019.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 60 births, registered in England and Wales in 2019.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2011, and 17 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.

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.

Nelia · #187, 11y
Nell · #114, 33y
Nelle · #1161, 20y
Nelli · #2496, 10y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Brooklynn · #424, 19y
Lola-Rose · #424, 20y
Lua · #424, 16y
Mollie-Mae · #424, 25y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Brooklynn · #424, 19y
Lola-Rose · #424, 20y
Lua · #424, 16y
Lyanna · #424, 13y

Nella was ranked #424 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2019. 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.

Nella 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 Nella without appearing here.

Nella moved ahead of

Kai Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2759 and #2326 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1731 and #5707.
Denise Compare
In 2012 they stood at #1809 and #1720 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1587 and #4739.
Helene Compare
In 2006 they stood at #4798 and #2970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #2233 and #5201.
Jeanette Compare
In 2006 they stood at #4798 and #4798 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #2233 and #5201.

Moved ahead of Nella

Blake Compare
In 2015 they stood at #1057 and #1240 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #1031 and #768.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #651 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #710 and #460.

Moved the opposite way to Nella

Abigail Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nella went from #4137 to #736 while Abigail went from #22 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nella went from #4137 to #736 while Aimee went from #65 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nella went from #4137 to #736 while Aisling went from #513 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nella went from #4137 to #736 while Alex went from #233 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Nella

Ada Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nella went from #4137 to #736 and Ada from #2301 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nella went from #4137 to #736 and Alma from #2105 to #234.
Amelia Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nella went from #4137 to #736 and Amelia from #25 to #2.
Aria Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nella went from #4137 to #736 and Aria from #2540 to #35.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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 3 regions, from 2002 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #424 in Northern Ireland in 2019. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Nella

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Popularity journey

Nella across 2 official records

Nella by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Nella across 2 official records

Nella by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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