Nelida
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nelida has been given to 1,520 babies in the U.S. since 1933. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1964, with 42 recorded.
Babies named Nelida, 2024
1 in 418,000
Nelida over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Nelida?
Nelida had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 418,000
- 8 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 203,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 289,633 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nelida sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nelida. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nelidas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nelida was born before 1976 — so the typical Nelida is around 49 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 22.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 15.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,480
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 22.2% of all recorded uses (337).
Is Nelida rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1964 (42)
- Years since peak
- 61
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.5% average annual change
Spellings of Nelida
Nelida is not the most common spelling — Melinda is, with 19.7% against Nelida's 0.22%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Nelida is used
Across 1910–2025, Nelida was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 76,509 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 in 33,333
- 2California1 in 50,000
- 3New Jersey1 in 100,000
- 4Connecticut1 in —
- 5Illinois1 in —
- 6Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Nelida has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Nelida around the world
Where Nelida ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- France1969–1969#1,880in 1969
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Nelida by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nelida
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nelida
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.