Feminine dossier · first seen 1907

Nelma

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Nelma
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1926

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Greatest Generation

1907Peak 19262024

Peak year

1926

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,229

Nelma has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Greatest Generation naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1926, when 50 girls were named Nelma.

No girls were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 1,229 Americans have been named Nelma and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1907.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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