Nello
The boy's name Nello has been in the national records since 1911, with 955 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 210 Nellos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 66.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Nello boys named Nello
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 955
- Estimated living today
- 210
- Median age today
- 66
- Peak year
- 1921
- Best rank
- 962nd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1911
- Girls / boys
- 18 / 937
How old the living Nellos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 955 babies given the name since 1911, about 210 are alive — 22 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1959 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Nellos
- Nello Pagani (1911–2003)Italian motorcycle racer
- Nello Musumeci (born 1955)Italian politician
- Nello Celio (1914–1995)member of the Swiss Federal Council
- Nello Santi (1931–2020)Italian conductor
- Nello Pazzafini (1933–1996)Italian actor
People named Nello with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Nello is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Nello is most concentrated in Pennsylvania (12.1×), Illinois (4.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1921
The most popular boys’ names the year Nello peaked:
Nello elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Nello | 615 | 331st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Nello against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.