This page shows the Nell (girls) figures from the National Records of Scotland babies' first names table, which covers every year from 2001 to 2025. Each row below is one year in which Nell was recorded as a first name for girls in Scotland: the number of babies given the name that year and the name's rank among Nell's first-name rivals that year — that is, the rank the source table itself gives the row, among all first names for girls that year.

The record for Nell for girls sums every one of those rows. Across the years covered, Nell appears in 22 of them, from 2001 to 2025, with 147 babies in total. Its largest single year was 2024, when the table records 16 babies given the name, at rank 230 among all first names for girls that year.

Figures cover every year from 2001 to 2025; years in which the table records no row for Nell for girls are simply not listed. The publisher suppresses names with a total count of 2 or less in Scotland, so no figure here stands below 3.

Year by year

Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names table, 2001 to 2025. Fetched 2026-11-05.

YearBabies given the nameRank among girls' first names
20259359
202416230
202313281
20227418
202113286
20209370
20197447
20186502
20177446
20163798
20154653
201410365
20135564
20124665
20115579
20107458
20093783
20073744
20056459
20034553
20023640
20013627

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