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Nelson

Pronounced /ˈnɛlsən/

Rank in 2024
#777
Born in 2024
322
Peak year
1959 · #244
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Steady
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 322 boys were named Nelson, about 1 in every 5,327.
  • It peaked in 1959 with 1,083 babies, ranked #244.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 79,398 boys have been named Nelson since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Nelson per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0.7
    Greatest
  2. 0.6
    Silent
  3. 0.5
    Boomers
  4. 0.4
    Gen X
  5. 0.4
    Millennials
  6. 0.3
    Gen Z
  7. 0.2
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 11,316 babies, 0.68 per 1,000. Silent: 12,416 babies, 0.60 per 1,000. Boomers: 17,055 babies, 0.45 per 1,000. Gen X: 11,386 babies, 0.42 per 1,000. Millennials: 11,649 babies, 0.38 per 1,000. Gen Z: 9,079 babies, 0.29 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 4,593 babies, 0.21 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Middle English Neil +‎ -son and Nell +‎ -son. In the United States, also an Anglicisation of North Germanic (Scandinavian) surnames such as Nilsen, Nielsen, and Nilsson, equivalent to "son of Nicholas".

  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈnɛlsən/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Nelson, CC BY-SA 4.0.