Nello

Where Nello comes from

Nello hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1911
    First appearance
    #982 among boys, 12 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1914
    Nello Celio born
    member of the Swiss Federal Council
  3. 1915
    Peak, #925
    45 babies named Nello — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1926
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,661.
  5. 1931
    Nello Santi born
    Italian conductor
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Nello Celio · member of the Swiss Federal Council, 1914–1995
  • Nello Santi · Italian conductor, 1931–2020
  • Nello Lauredi · French cyclist, 1924–2001
  • Nello Troggi · Italian bicycle racer, 1912–1944
  • Nello Ciaccheri · Italian cyclist, 1893–1971

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.