Nels
Recorded for boysBaby Boomer2025 rank
#4,656
up +724 places
2025 births
22
up +4 births
All-time births
3,841
1% of them in 2025
More common than
95%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1918
- 65 births
- Best rank
- #309
- in 1884
- First recorded
- 1880
- #553 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1948
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 146 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 191865#813Peak
- 191658#818
- 191556#821
- 195555#1,021
- 192752#973
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #309 in 1884 · peak births 65 in 1918
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Nels has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.
The girls' series
No girls have been recorded with this name.
Stated, not plotted as zero — the split bar and the unisex badge are omitted rather than drawn empty.