Name meaning & stats
Nels
Nels (Norwegian origin). 2,211 US babies since 1940, peak 1955.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
Norwegian
In US birth records
Peak year: 1955
2,211 US babies were named Nels between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Nels (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Name twins (peaked around 1955)