Feminine dossier · first seen 1889

Nelva

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

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1935

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Silent Generation

1889Peak 19352024

Peak year

1935

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,139

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

Your name peaked in 1935, when 44 girls were named Nelva.

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 1,139 Americans have been named Nelva and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1889.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationSilent Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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