Nelli

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Female Name

Usage

Finnish
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian

Origin and Meaning

1) Pet form of Cornelia ^{[1] [2] [3]}

2) English pet form of Helen (see Helene) ^{[1] [2] [3]}

3) English pet form of Eleanor ^{[1] [2] [3]}

4) English pet form of Ellen ^[3]

5) Pet form of names ending in -nella and -nelle ^{[1] [2]}

6) Pet form of names ending in -nelma ^[4]

Related Names

Nell	♀
Nella	♀
Nelle	♀
Nelli	♀
Nellie	♀
Nelline	♀
Nelly	♀

Name Day

Finland

11 July

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1793 ^[3]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[5]		255	281	0	0
Denmark[6]		85	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[7]		20	35	0	0
Finland[8]		n.a.	3239	0	0
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend^[5][6][7][8]:

Sources: ^{[5] [6] [7] [8]}

References

1. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
3. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
4. ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
7. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi