Nellis
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nellis has been given to 36 babies in the U.S. since 1918. 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 1918, with 7 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 50% girls, 50% boys all-time.
Babies named Nellis, 1938
1 in 369,000
Nellis 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Nellis over time
In 1938, Nellis went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Nellis?
Nellis had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1938, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1938
- 1 in 369,000
- 6 of 2,212,569 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 184,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1938
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,607 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nellis sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1938 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 255,607 children born in 1938 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nellis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nelliss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nellis was born before 1923 — so the typical Nellis is around 102 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 38.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 38.9% of all recorded uses (7).
Is Nellis 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1918 (7)
- Years since peak
- 107
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Nellis
Nellis is not the most common spelling — Nellie is, with 32.1% against Nellis's <0.01%.
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.
Nellis by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Nellis
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nellis
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.