Narelle
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Australian: of uncertain origin (A concise dictionary of first names)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: IBGE, 2022
Narelle is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 139 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020.
- NLNetherlands1 in 524K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1.7M
- SESweden1 in 1.7M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 35 (measured from records)
- 1 in 524K (inferred from the name graph)
139 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Australian: of uncertain origin. It has been in use since the 19th century and seems to represent an elaboration of an unidentified word or name from an Aboriginal language. Narellan is a town in eastern New South Wales, south-west of Sydney; the names may be connected, but if so the details are unclear. As a given name this became widely popular in the 1940s; it is still in fairly frequent use.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Narelle counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 139 | 1 in 2.4M | 139 | Narelle | 18 |
| NL Netherlands | 33 | 1 in 524K | 33 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 28 | 1 in 7.6M | 28 | Narelle | 24 |
| SE Sweden | 6 | 1 in 1.7M | 6 | — | — |
| CL Chile | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 4.8M | 1 | Narelle | 6 |
| CR Costa Rica | 3 | 1 in 1.7M | 3 | Narelle | 5 |
139 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Narelle is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Australian: derived from Nara Elle
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Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Narelle Kellnerb. 1934AUAustralian chess player (1934–1987)
- Narelle Autiob. 1969AUAustralian photographer (born 1969)
- Narelle Ahrensactress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Narelle come from?
- Australian: of uncertain origin. It has been in use since the 19th century and seems to represent an elaboration of an unidentified word or name from an Aboriginal language. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Narelle a male or female name?
- Narelle is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- What does the name Narelle mean?
- Recorded meaning: Australian: of uncertain origin.
- Which countries have the most people named Narelle?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 139 people named Narelle, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled narelle. After it come Netherlands, Brazil, Sweden and Chile; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Narelle most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Narelle is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 524 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Narelle?
- In the United States, the national register counted 139 people named Narelle in 2020, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/narelleThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Narelle” — ranked 47181st in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.