girls:
18 births since 1923
#5698 (0th percentile)
boys:
931 births since 1911
#3660 (20th percentile)
overall:
949 births since 1911
#6790 (12th percentile)
The name Nello is the #6,790 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 949 recorded births since 1911. This represents the 12.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 12.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,660 (20.1% percentile) for all time with 931 births since 1911. For girls, it ranks #5,698 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 18 births since 1923.
Nello first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1911 (1911 for boys and 1923 for girls). Birth data for Nello is available in 65 out of the 111 years between 1911 and 2021 (65 years for boys and 3 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Nello has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Nello reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 8.7% percentile (ranked #502) with 47 births per million. The name was most common in 1915, with 51 births per million (ranked 8.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
For girls, Nello reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #590) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1930, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1930.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nello".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Nello is pronounced as NEH-loh, which has 2 syllables.
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