Nelya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- NEL-ya
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Nelya is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
Where does Nelya come from?
Russian and Ukrainian pet form of names like Nelli or Neonila
Is Nelya a girl's or a boy's name?
Nelya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Nelya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #13,203among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Nelya, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 15 girls. It first appears in the records in 2015.
2025 had fewer girls named Nelya than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Nelya in the US since 1880 were born between 2018 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Nelya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,117 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,242 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,532 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,210 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,413 |
Names like Nelya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Nora Cora Emma Nina Stella Clara Ada Ella Mina Millie Lena Eva
Names related to Nelya
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, “Nelya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nelya, updated 20 October 2026.