Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Greek.
The story
In mythological stories, Nephele is associated with a nymph created from a cloud.
Nephele through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 13
- 0 boys · 13 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #12,816 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 12,816 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.
Nephele’s family of names
Nephele has a related form in Nephel. Nephele has a related form in Nephelea. Nephele has a related form in Nephelia.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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