Nelsy
#9,904 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nelsy has been given to 278 babies in the U.S. since 1984. In 2025 it ranked #9,904 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1995, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Nelsy, 2025
1 in 332,000
Nelsy 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Nelsy?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 332,000
- 10 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 161,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #9,904
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 229,791 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nelsy sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nelsy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nelsys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nelsy was born before 2005 — so the typical Nelsy is around 20 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 36.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 66.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 278
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 36.7% of all recorded uses (102).
Is Nelsy 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
- +955
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +4,724
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 76.9%
- Peak was 1995 (13)
- Years since peak
- 30
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.7% average annual change
Spellings of Nelsy
Nelsy is not the most common spelling — Kelly is, with 58.0% against Nelsy's 0.03%.
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 Nelsy is used
Across 1910–2025, Nelsy was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,754,417 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 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. Nelsy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Nelsy around the world
Where Nelsy 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.
- France1974–2022#6,067in 2022
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Nelsy by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nelsy
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nelsy
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.