Nelsie
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nelsie has been given to 120 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 12 recorded.
Babies named Nelsie, 2006
1 in 791,000
Nelsie 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Nelsie?
Nelsie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2006
- 1 in 791,000
- 5 of 3,956,166 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 380,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2006
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 548,442 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nelsie sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2006 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 548,442 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nelsie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nelsies were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nelsie was born before 1924 — so the typical Nelsie is around 101 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 44.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 4.2%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 11
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 44.2% of all recorded uses (53).
Is Nelsie 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 (12)
- Years since peak
- 110
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.2% average annual change
Spellings of Nelsie
Nelsie is not the most common spelling — Elsie is, with 18.3% against Nelsie'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.
Nelsie around the world
Where Nelsie 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 & Wales2021–2021#5,581in 2021
- France1984–2014#4,539in 2014
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Nelsie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nelsie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nelsie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.