Entry № 7353 · Hungarian origin

Nelli Nelli — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Hungarian
Meaning
"A shining light"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a shining light".

Nelli is a name of Hungarian origin, meaning a shining light.

A shining light — a Hungarian name.

The name in its native script.

Nelli
Transliteration
Nelli
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Nelli stands.

Nelli does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Nellis before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Nelli.

The number behind Nelli.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nelli reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.