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NAMES LIKE NELS
Same rise and fall as Nels, around the same years.
WHERE NELS IS POPULAR · 2024
In 2024, Nels ranked highest in Minnesota (#1,623). 50 states had fewer than 5 babies with the name, too few to list.
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MARKET MOVERS · 10 YEARS
Nels name popularity
Nels has been given to 3,841 babies in the United States since 1880.
It peaked in 1918, when 65 babies got the name, and its best rank was #648 in 1884.
In 2025, 22 babies were named Nels (#9,648 in the country), 66% below the peak. That is up 57% from 2015.
Almost every Nels is a boy.
An estimated 2K people named Nels are alive in the US today, with a median age of 55.
HOW IT WORKS
The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.
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