Nelliemae
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nelliemae has been given to 13 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1915, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Nelliemae, 1916
1 in 387,000
Nelliemae 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Nelliemae?
Nelliemae had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1916, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1916
- 1 in 387,000
- 5 of 1,934,362 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 209,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1916
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 268,161 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nelliemae sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1916 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 268,161 children born in 1916 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nelliemae. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nelliemaes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nelliemae was born before 1915 — so the typical Nelliemae is around 110 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (13).
Is Nelliemae 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 1915 (8)
- Years since peak
- 110
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Nelliemae
Nelliemae is not the most common spelling — Williemae is, with 50.7% against Nelliemae's 0.91%.
Nelliemae around the world
Where Nelliemae 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.
- England & Wales2014–2025#3,333in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Nelliemae by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nelliemae
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nelliemae
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.