Meaning not yet researched.
Nella: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 60 in 2025. Its best rank was #387 in 1881.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #387 in 1881; #2,852 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nella in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,852 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1881, at #387.
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Nella: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 60 girls in 2025. Peak: #387 in 1881 · most girls in one year: 81 (2022).
In 2025, 60 US girls were named Nella, making it the 2,852nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 61 places from #2,791 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 61 girls named Nella in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #387, reached in 1881. The most girls given the name in a single year was 81, in 2022. For comparison, it was #2,920 in 2015 and #1,706 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nella in 131 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 10 babies. In all, 4,374 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 656 babies named Nella.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 688 US girls were named Nella; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 81. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,788 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nella ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #1,180 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ella (352,214 babies since 1880), Nellie (153,284 babies since 1880), Nelle (5,794 babies since 1880) and Nyla (27,714 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Icelandic. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Nella in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 6 | #1,180 | — |
| California | 7 | #2,699 | #3,818 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60 | #2,852 | — | — |
| 2024 | 61 | #2,791 | — | — |
| 2023 | 61 | #2,813 | — | — |
| 2022 | 81 | #2,311 | — | — |
| 2021 | 72 | #2,477 | — | — |
| 2020 | 66 | #2,590 | — | — |
| 2019 | 74 | #2,419 | — | — |
| 2018 | 80 | #2,291 | — | — |
| 2017 | 75 | #2,419 | — | — |
| 2016 | 58 | #2,928 | — | — |
| 2015 | 60 | #2,920 | — | — |
| 2014 | 63 | #2,771 | — | — |
| 2013 | 51 | #3,210 | — | — |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,968 | — | — |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,894 | — | — |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,937 | — | — |
| 2009 | 48 | #3,446 | — | — |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,733 | — | — |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,263 | — | — |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,505 | — | — |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,289 | — | — |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,722 | — | — |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,675 | — | — |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,815 | — | — |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,134 | — | — |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,721 | — | — |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,866 | — | — |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,501 | — | — |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,209 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,435 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,715 | — | — |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,190 | — | — |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,676 | — | — |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,252 | — | — |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,280 | — | — |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,836 | — | — |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,929 | — | — |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,901 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,167 | — | — |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,396 | — | — |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,974 | — | — |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,420 | — | — |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,412 | — | — |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,289 | — | — |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,492 | — | — |
| 1965 | 18 | #3,017 | — | — |
| 1964 | 25 | #2,514 | — | — |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,963 | — | — |
| 1962 | 25 | #2,447 | — | — |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,810 | — | — |
| 1960 | 25 | #2,414 | — | — |
| 1959 | 19 | #2,729 | — | — |
| 1958 | 24 | #2,363 | — | — |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,473 | — | — |
| 1956 | 25 | #2,233 | — | — |
| 1955 | 23 | #2,322 | — | — |
| 1954 | 32 | #1,866 | — | — |
| 1953 | 33 | #1,753 | — | — |
| 1952 | 37 | #1,602 | — | — |
| 1951 | 39 | #1,515 | — | — |
| 1950 | 31 | #1,706 | — | — |
| 1949 | 41 | #1,445 | — | — |
| 1948 | 28 | #1,810 | — | — |
| 1947 | 38 | #1,536 | — | — |
| 1946 | 38 | #1,433 | — | — |
| 1945 | 33 | #1,412 | — | — |
| 1944 | 38 | #1,302 | — | — |
| 1943 | 43 | #1,245 | — | — |
| 1942 | 38 | #1,318 | — | — |
| 1941 | 54 | #999 | — | — |
| 1940 | 61 | #922 | — | — |
| 1939 | 46 | #1,061 | — | — |
| 1938 | 52 | #988 | — | — |
| 1937 | 68 | #839 | — | — |
| 1936 | 65 | #844 | — | — |
| 1935 | 59 | #900 | — | — |
| 1934 | 81 | #744 | — | — |
| 1933 | 58 | #890 | — | — |
| 1932 | 66 | #860 | — | — |
| 1931 | 56 | #929 | — | — |
| 1930 | 68 | #877 | — | — |
| 1929 | 48 | #1,060 | — | — |
| 1928 | 57 | #990 | — | — |
| 1927 | 81 | #813 | — | — |
| 1926 | 58 | #985 | — | — |
| 1925 | 74 | #868 | — | — |
| 1924 | 70 | #912 | — | — |
| 1923 | 58 | #984 | — | — |
| 1922 | 74 | #858 | — | — |
| 1921 | 79 | #834 | — | — |
| 1920 | 57 | #976 | — | — |
| 1919 | 61 | #907 | — | — |
| 1918 | 74 | #838 | — | — |
| 1917 | 47 | #1,035 | — | — |
| 1916 | 57 | #900 | — | — |
| 1915 | 48 | #963 | — | — |
| 1914 | 44 | #885 | — | — |
| 1913 | 36 | #895 | — | — |
| 1912 | 44 | #761 | — | — |
| 1911 | 18 | #1,061 | — | — |
| 1910 | 34 | #734 | — | — |
| 1909 | 18 | #987 | — | — |
| 1908 | 26 | #764 | — | — |
| 1907 | 22 | #810 | — | — |
| 1906 | 12 | #1,138 | — | — |
| 1905 | 22 | #795 | — | — |
| 1904 | 14 | #988 | — | — |
| 1903 | 20 | #783 | — | — |
| 1902 | 15 | #928 | — | — |
| 1901 | 13 | #950 | — | — |
| 1900 | 14 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 1899 | 10 | #1,078 | — | — |
| 1898 | 11 | #1,085 | — | — |
| 1897 | 17 | #783 | — | — |
| 1896 | 14 | #895 | — | — |
| 1895 | 18 | #760 | — | — |
| 1894 | 19 | #695 | — | — |
| 1893 | 16 | #756 | — | — |
| 1892 | 18 | #702 | — | — |
| 1891 | 15 | #721 | — | — |
| 1890 | 9 | #987 | — | — |
| 1889 | 10 | #888 | — | — |
| 1888 | 17 | #626 | — | — |
| 1887 | 12 | #682 | — | — |
| 1886 | 11 | #721 | — | — |
| 1885 | 10 | #729 | — | — |
| 1884 | 19 | #474 | — | — |
| 1883 | 6 | #892 | — | — |
| 1882 | 11 | #591 | — | — |
| 1881 | 19 | #387 | — | — |
| 1880 | 10 | #570 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).