Nello
Nello was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 955 Americans have been recorded with it between 1911 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nello by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nello?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,920, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
53 babies in 1921, the peak
Nello peaked in 1921, when 53 boys were given it, #967 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #11,920 | 3.5 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,489 | 2.9 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,739 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,768 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,721 | 3.2 |
| 2009 | 5 | #13,888 | 2.5 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,475 | 2.7 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,158 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,959 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,197 | 4.1 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 5 | #5,757 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,516 | 3.1 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,222 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,822 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,580 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 10 | #2,738 | 5.6 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,270 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,906 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,461 | 2.4 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,428 | 2.3 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,202 | 3.7 |
| 1958 | 13 | #2,335 | 6.1 |
| 1957 | 12 | #2,454 | 5.6 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,739 | 4.7 |
| 1955 | 17 | #1,952 | 8.3 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,192 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,337 | 3.5 |
| 1952 | 5 | #4,106 | 2.6 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,264 | 3.7 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,591 | 3.4 |
| 1947 | 9 | #2,810 | 4.9 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,638 | 3.7 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,791 | 5.9 |
| 1943 | 9 | #2,682 | 6.3 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,877 | 5.8 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,393 | 4.9 |
| 1940 | 16 | #1,777 | 13.8 |
| 1939 | 8 | #2,752 | 7.2 |
| 1938 | 15 | #1,874 | 13.5 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,408 | 5.6 |
| 1936 | 14 | #1,940 | 13.5 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,490 | 9.6 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,694 | 8.7 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,321 | 11.1 |
| 1932 | 20 | #1,633 | 19.2 |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,678 | 18.3 |
| 1930 | 20 | #1,680 | 18.2 |
| 1929 | 18 | #1,841 | 16.7 |
| 1928 | 21 | #1,684 | 19.0 |
| 1927 | 18 | #1,930 | 16.0 |
| 1926 | 21 | #1,696 | 18.9 |
| 1925 | 24 | #1,565 | 21.5 |
| 1924 | 32 | #1,316 | 28.3 |
| 1923 | 29 | #1,375 | 26.5 |
| 1922 | 26 | #1,493 | 23.9 |
| 1921 | 53 | #967 | 48.1 |
| 1920 | 37 | #1,202 | 34.8 |
| 1919 | 35 | #1,202 | 35.7 |
| 1918 | 27 | #1,393 | 26.6 |
| 1917 | 41 | #1,030 | 44.3 |
| 1916 | 39 | #1,037 | 43.8 |
| 1915 | 45 | #936 | 53.0 |
| 1914 | 33 | #982 | 50.4 |
| 1913 | 18 | #1,237 | 35.1 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,702 | 23.3 |
| 1911 | 12 | #1,024 | 53.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nello a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 955 Americans recorded as Nello, 2% are girls and 98% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Nello: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nello, and how old are they?
An estimated 203 Americans named Nello and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (21% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 47 and 73. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 420 people named Nello (14 women and girls, 406 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 245 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Nello born?
The states with the most babies named Nello are Pennsylvania, Illinois and California, with 97% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 117 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 42 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 15 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Nello is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nello is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1911 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Nello with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,875 babies since 1880, Nello is the most given (51% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Nello
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Nello and names like it
- Compare Nello and NealeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sNello peaked in 1921.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nello since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Nello.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Nello alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with NMost given first.