Nel

Where Nel comes from

The dictionaries list Nel as a given name — a female given name, variant of Nell — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1908
    Debut at its peak, #2,101
    #2,101 among girls with 5 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1909
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Nell
  • A diminutive of the male given name Nelson
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Nel hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.