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NAMES LIKE NELSON
Same rise and fall as Nelson, around the same years.
WHERE NELSON IS POPULAR · 2024
In 2024, Nelson ranked highest in Arkansas (#735) and lowest in Illinois (#2,322). 31 states had fewer than 5 babies with the name, too few to list.
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MARKET MOVERS · 10 YEARS
Nelson name popularity
Nelson has been given to 80,140 babies in the United States since 1880.
It peaked in 1959, when 1,084 babies got the name, and its best rank was #279 in 1880.
In 2025, 300 babies were named Nelson (#1,689 in the country), 72% below the peak. That is down 30% from 2015.
Almost every Nelson is a boy.
An estimated 53K people named Nelson are alive in the US today, with a median age of 48.
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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