Meaning and history
Nell is a medieval diminutive of names beginning with El, such as Eleanor, Ellen, or Helen, and may have developed from the affectionate medieval phrase mine El, later reinterpreted as my Nel.
20062006: 30 births, rank #4,685
2007: 24 births, rank #5,709
2008: 20 births, rank #6,559
2009: 30 births, rank #4,805
2010: 24 births, rank #5,602
20112011: 32 births, rank #4,466
2012: 32 births, rank #4,486
2013: 44 births, rank #3,513
2014: 42 births, rank #3,652
2015: 61 births, rank #2,846
20162016: 70 births, rank #2,539
2017: 87 births, rank #2,184
2018: 72 births, rank #2,457
2019: 115 births, rank #1,773
2020: 79 births, rank #2,257
20212021: 96 births, rank #2,007
2022: 119 births, rank #1,742
2023: 124 births, rank #1,669
2024: 150 births, rank #1,457
20252025: 128 births, rank #1,622
Nell moved from #918 to #997 for girls between 1954 and 1956. Its highest annual birth count came in 1917, with 766 births.