Nels

Where Nels comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Nels.

Nels through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #526 among boys, with 12 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1884
    Peak, #306
    32 babies named Nels, its best rank.
  3. 1886
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #470.
  4. 1902
    Nels Stewart born
    Canadian ice hockey player
  5. 1956
    Nels Cline born
    American guitarist and composer
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Nels Cline · American guitarist and composer, born 1956
  • Nels Stewart · Canadian ice hockey player, 1902–1957
  • Nels H. Smith · American politician, 1884–1976
  • Nels Anderson · sociologist, 1889–1986
  • Nels Johnson · American clockmaker, 1838–1915

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.