Nello
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nello has been given to 955 babies in the U.S. since 1911. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1921, with 53 recorded.
Babies named Nello, 2024
1 in 557,000
Nello over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Nello?
Nello had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 557,000
- 6 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 287,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 386,177 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nello sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nello. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nellos were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nello was born before 1926 — so the typical Nello is around 99 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 29.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 3.6%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 199
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 29.8% of all recorded uses (279).
Is Nello rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1921 (53)
- Years since peak
- 104
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.4% average annual change
Spellings of Nello
Nello is not the most common spelling — Neil is, with 28.2% against Nello's 0.25%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Nello is used
Across 1910–2025, Nello was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 223,908 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3Illinois1 in —
- 4North Carolina1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Nello has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Nello around the world
Where Nello ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- France1908–2024#3,796in 2024
- South Australia1949–1955#392in 1955
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Nello by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Nello
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nello
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.