Nelson
19
Babies in 2024
-47%
10-year change
2012
Peak · 40
-24%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Nelson
Nelson appears in the official UK boys' name list for 2024, ranked #1,402 with 19 boys registered in England & Wales.
Nelson reached its peak in 2012, when 40 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #793 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 19 represents 48% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 744 boys have been officially registered with the name Nelson in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 317 boys were registered with the name, starting from 36 in 2014 and ending at 19 in 2024.