Nesanel
Nesanel was given to 24 boys in 2025, #4,344 among boys’ names; 361 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nesanel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nesanel?
#4,344 among boys’ names, 2025
Nesanel rose from #5,663 in 2015 to #4,344 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 8.3 to 14.1 per million.
24 babies in 2025, the peak
Nesanel peaked in 2025, when 24 boys were given it, #4,344 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 20 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #4,344 | 14.1 |
| 2024 | 20 | #4,993 | 11.6 |
| 2023 | 23 | #4,565 | 13.4 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,379 | 8.0 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,948 | 8.6 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,623 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 20 | #4,916 | 11.1 |
| 2018 | 20 | #4,869 | 11.0 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,555 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,602 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #5,663 | 8.3 |
| 2014 | 18 | #5,198 | 9.4 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,908 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,897 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,908 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,408 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,782 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 12 | #7,067 | 5.9 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,443 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,833 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 19 | #4,586 | 9.5 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,644 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,385 | 4.0 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,443 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,795 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,551 | 3.2 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,392 | 2.5 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,826 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nesanel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nesanel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nesanel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nesanel, and how old are they?
An estimated 357 Americans named Nesanel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 285 people named Nesanel (0 women and girls, 285 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 251 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% above 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 Nesanel born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 12 | #1,035 | 6.1× |
| New Jersey | 7 | #881 | 4.5× |
Where Nesanel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nesanel is most over-represented in New York: since 1989 it was given 6.1 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 Nesanel with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Nesanel
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.
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