Nebula
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- NEB-yuh-luh
- Origin
- Latin
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Nebula is a girls' name of Latin origin, meaning “mist, cloud”. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
What does Nebula mean?
Latin: Latin word, used in English
“mist, cloud”
Latin for mist or cloud; in astronomy a nebula is a vast cloud of gas and dust in space.
Is Nebula a girl's or a boy's name?
Nebula is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Nebula in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #10,104among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9about 1 in 180,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 42% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the US were named Nebula, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,554th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 21 girls. It first appears in the records in 2011.
2025 had fewer girls named Nebula than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Nebula in the US since 1880 were born between 2018 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Nebula in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,164 |
| 2023 | 16 | #6,917 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,790 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,019 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,554 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,801 |
| 2017 | 10 | #9,939 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
Names like Nebula
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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More Latin names
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Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Nebula: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nebula, updated 20 October 2026.