Nelly
Nelly (also Nelli and Nellie ) is a female given name.
origin
Nelly is a short form of the first names Cornelia or Petronella and also originated as a child's own name from Elli , Helene and Eleonore , in English also from Elizabeth .
Occasionally, Nelly also appears as a male nickname.
variants
Name bearers
First names
Nelly
- Nelly Arcan (1973-2009), Canadian writer
- Nelly Ben-Or (* 1933), Polish pianist and music teacher
- Nelly Bodenheim (1874–1951), Dutch painter, draftsman, lithographer
- Nelly Marie Bojahr (* 1988), German beauty queen and model
- Nelly Brodmann (1863 - after 1903), Austrian theater actress and singer
- Nelly Buntschu (* 1947), Swiss politician
- Nelly Diener (1912–1934), first female flight attendant in Europe
- Nelly Dix (1923–1955), German writer and painter
- Nelly Frijda (* 1936), Dutch actress
- Nelly Furtado (* 1978), Portuguese-Canadian singer
- Nelly Kaplan (* 1936), Argentine-French film director
- Nelly Mann (1898–1944), German Bohémienne
- Nelly Naumann (1922–2000), German Japanologist
- Nelly Olin (1941–2017), French politician
- Nelly Sachs (1891–1970), German writer and Nobel Prize winner for literature
- Nelly Wicky (1923–2020), Swiss politician
- Nelly Wolffheim (1879–1965), German educator
Nelli
- Nelli Aghinjan (* 1981), Armenian chess player
- Nelli Ayukhanova (1960–2007), Russian director
- Nelli Bar (1904–2001), German sculptor
- Nelli Cooman (* 1964), Dutch sprinter
- Nelli Vladimirovna Kim (* 1957), Soviet gymnast and five-time Olympic champion
- Nelli Kossko (* 1937), Russian-German writer and editor
- Nelli Schmithals (1880–1975), German photographer
Nellie
- Nellie Campobello (* 1900 or 1909; † 1986), Mexican dancer and writer
- Nellie Carrington (1916–1998), British high jumper
- Nellie Jane DeWitt (1895–1978), American nurse and director of the US Navy Nurse Corps
- Nellie Halstead (1910-1991), British athlete
- Nellie Lutcher (1912–2007), American singer and pianist (swing and rhythm and blues)
- Nellie McClung (1873–1951), Canadian suffragette, author, politician and social activist
- Nellie McKay (1930–2006), American literary scholar
- Nellie McKay (* 1982), American singer and actress
- Nellie Tayloe Ross (1876–1977), American politician, governor of Wyoming and first female governor in the USA
Nella
- Nella Maria Bonora (1904–1990), Italian actress, author and voice actress
- Nella Korpio (* 1999), Finnish ski racer
- Nella Larsen (1891–1964), African American writer
- Nella Martinetti (1946–2011), Swiss singer, composer, lyricist of popular hits and actress
- Nella Walker (1886–1971), American actress
Stage name
- Nelly (1899–1998), Greek photographer
- Nelly (rapper) (born 1974), American rapper
- Nellie Bly (1864–1922), American journalist and world traveler
- Nellie Melba (1861-1931), Australian opera singer (soprano)
Nickname
- Nellie Fox , American baseball player
additional
- Movie title:
- Nelly (1914) , German silent film
- Nelly (2014) Original title À ce soir
- Nelly Island (Antarctica) , island off the Budd coast of Wilkesland, Antarctica
- Nelly Island (Bermuda) , island in the Bermuda Islands
Individual evidence
- ↑ Duden: The large first name dictionary . 3. Edition. Mannheim 2007. ISBN 978-3-411-06083-2
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: First names . German language publisher. Wiesbaden 1977.
- ↑ Rada języka Polskiego : Aneks do obowiązującego wykazu Imion. In: rjp.pan.pl. 2007, Retrieved November 29, 2012 (Polish).