Nelly

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Danish
Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

English form of Nelli

Related Names

See Nelli

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Nelly
Genitive:	Nellys

- Finnish
Nominative:	Nelly
Genitive:	Nellyn
Partitive:	Nellyä

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Nelly
Genitive:	Nellys

- Swedish
Nominative:	Nelly
Genitive:	Nellys

Name Day

Finland (Swedish Language)

11 July

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden: 1803
• Denmark: 19th century

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden:
  • 1865-1929
  • 1885-1909
• Denmark:
  • 1890-1950
  • 1900-1919
• Norway:
  • 1915-1920

Predominant Regional Usage

• Denmark:
  • Nordjylland
  • Vestjylland
• Sweden:
  • Halland (19th century) see map
  • Skåne (19th century) see map
  • Sydsverige
  • Gotland
  • Nordsverige

Namesakes

• Leonie (Nelly) Sachs, 10 December 1891 – 12 May 1970, German-born poet and playwright in Sweden and Nobel laureate (Literature, 1966)

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 2,848 people were named Nelly (percentage of first or only given name: 78 %)

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Sweden		3350	4774	3345	4763	5	11
Finland		n.a.	1609	n.a.	1609	0	0
Denmark		461	n.a.	461	n.a.	0	n.a.
Iceland		6	10	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		1061	n.a.	1061	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Greenland		0	0	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
#: 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

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Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Nelly (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.