Given name
Nefeli
“cloud”
Nefeli is a feminine given name from Greek. It is used in French.
Original GreekΝεφέλη
Meaning & origin
What it means
Nefeli goes back to Greek Νεφέλη, meaning “cloud.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2003. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Nefeli through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 133
- 0 boys · 133 girls
- Most popular year
- 2023
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 14
- #7,786 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +75%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 14 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 7,786 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Nefeli’s family of names
In French usage, Nefeli has a conventional equivalent in the Greek form Νεφέλη.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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