Haha, I'm cracking up at your guesses about "NE" ladies!
No, NE stands for "name enthusiast", but it's something I'd never expect anyone who wasn't a fellow NE to know. Basically, all it means is that I'm a huge geek. I LOVE names- baby names, character names, new names, classic names, naming trends and how they differ with regional, cultural and socio-economic differences... I could go on. One of my favourite things is hearing someone's real name, whether it's here on YLF or at my part-time job, and I get really excited when I run into someone with an interesting name.
Oh, and Laura, Ele is my real name, sort of. Really I'm Eleanor, which I do go by sometimes, but almost everyone knows me as Ele- even my boss and my doctor! Ele is pronounced the same as Ellie but I dislike that spelling and get offended if someone uses it I think I was four years old when I told my parents "If Ele is the first part of Eleanor then we're going to spell it like that, too"