Nabeel
Nabeel was given to 26 boys in 2025, #4,107 among boys’ names; 1,182 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,150 Americans named Nabeel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 13 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nabeel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nabeel?
#4,107 among boys’ names, 2025
Nabeel rose from #4,498 in 2015 to #4,107 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 11.5 to 15.2 per million.
45 babies in 1999, the peak
Nabeel peaked in 1999, when 45 boys were given it, #2,125 among boys’ names. The 26 births of 2025 are 58% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #4,107 | 15.2 |
| 2024 | 25 | #4,287 | 14.5 |
| 2023 | 20 | #5,001 | 11.7 |
| 2022 | 15 | #6,053 | 8.6 |
| 2021 | 31 | #3,619 | 17.7 |
| 2020 | 18 | #5,168 | 10.4 |
| 2019 | 20 | #4,912 | 11.1 |
| 2018 | 26 | #4,068 | 14.3 |
| 2017 | 28 | #3,856 | 15.1 |
| 2016 | 26 | #4,059 | 13.7 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #4,498 | 11.5 |
| 2014 | 25 | #4,090 | 13.0 |
| 2013 | 40 | #2,880 | 21.1 |
| 2012 | 23 | #4,342 | 12.1 |
| 2011 | 18 | #5,125 | 9.5 |
| 2010 | 18 | #5,174 | 9.4 |
| 2009 | 40 | #2,977 | 20.2 |
| 2008 | 20 | #4,840 | 9.8 |
| 2007 | 20 | #4,749 | 9.6 |
| 2006 | 29 | #3,578 | 14.1 |
| 2005 | 32 | #3,208 | 16.0 |
| 2004 | 24 | #3,821 | 12.1 |
| 2003 | 30 | #3,165 | 15.2 |
| 2002 | 42 | #2,413 | 21.6 |
| 2001 | 36 | #2,662 | 18.5 |
| 2000 | 41 | #2,360 | 20.9 |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,125 | 23.4 |
| 1998 | 32 | #2,628 | 16.7 |
| 1997 | 33 | #2,478 | 17.5 |
| 1996 | 33 | #2,409 | 17.4 |
| 1995 | 21 | #3,266 | 11.0 |
| 1994 | 36 | #2,239 | 18.6 |
| 1993 | 35 | #2,235 | 17.8 |
| 1992 | 29 | #2,505 | 14.5 |
| 1991 | 21 | #3,069 | 10.4 |
| 1990 | 24 | #2,746 | 11.7 |
| 1989 | 25 | #2,582 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 22 | #2,659 | 11.5 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,290 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 14 | #3,376 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,562 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 14 | #3,218 | 7.8 |
| 1983 | 10 | #4,055 | 5.6 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,869 | 6.1 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,816 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,765 | 6.2 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,190 | 4.1 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,878 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,528 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,282 | 5.1 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,181 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,473 | 4.5 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,565 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nabeel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nabeel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nabeel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nabeel, and how old are they?
1,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,182 Americans ever recorded as Nabeel. The median Nabeel alive today is 24 years old; half are between 13 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 1,986 people named Nabeel (2 women and girls, 1,984 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,030 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 54 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 304 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 474 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 320 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Nabeel born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #2,689 | 0.7× |
| Minnesota | 5 | #898 | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Nabeel with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 3,192 babies since 1880, Nabeel is the second most given (37% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 77 babies (34%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Nabeel
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Nabeel and names like it
- Compare Nabeel and NabilBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sNabeel peaked in 1999.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nabeel since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Nabeel.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nabeel alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.