Nelly and Nellie are female given names, also used as nicknames, which are derived from the names Helen, Ellen, Petronella, Danielle, Cornelia, Eleanor, Janelle, Chanelle, Penelope, Elizabeth, Natalie or Noelia.

Contents

• Women with the name
• Men with the name
• Fictional characters
• See also

Women with the name

Men with the name

• Nellie Briles (1943–2005), American baseball player
• Nelly Cruz (born 1980), Dominican-American professional baseball player
• Nellie Fox (1927–1975), American professional baseball player
• Nelly, stage name of American rapper Cornell Iral Haynes Jr.
• Nelly Junior Joseph (born 2001), Nigerian basketball player
• Nellie King (1928–2010), American baseball player and radio announcer
• Nellie Metcalf (1890–1982), American football player, coach, and administrator
• Don Nelson (born 1940), American basketball coach and player nicknamed "Nellie"
• Nellie Pott (1899–1963), American baseball player
• Nellie Rodríguez (born 1994), American professional baseball player

Fictional characters

• Nellie, subject of the 1956 song "Nellie the Elephant" and Nellie the Elephant (TV series)
• Nelly, the legal guardian and 'aunt' to Vladimir Tod in The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod written by Heather Brewer
• Nellie Bertram, a character from The Office (U.S.), played by Catherine Tate
• Nellie Brie, from the film An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster
• Nellie Crain, from the Netflix limited series The Haunting of Hill House , played by Victoria Pedretti
• Nelly Dean, in Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights
• Nellie Forbush, heroine of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific
• Nellie Gray, ally of The Avenger
• Nellie O'Malley, a character from the American Girl series
• Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck, known as Nel Tu, a small, good-natured, character in the manga Bleach
• Nellie Oleson, from the Little House on the Prairie children's books and TV series
• Nellie Pledge, a fictional character in the Granada Television series Nearest and Dearest , played by Hylda Baker
• Nel Rawlison, in Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel In Desert and Wilderness

See also

• Nella
• Nell
• Nelson

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