Nabil
Nabil was given to 51 boys in 2025, #2,589 among boys’ names; 2,010 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,950 Americans named Nabil and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 11 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nabil by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nabil mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Nabil is “a male given name from Arabic.” Its etymology gives the sense “noble” (نَبِيل).
From Arabic نَبِيل (nabīl, “noble”).
[nəˈbɪɫ]
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nabil?
#2,589 among boys’ names, 2025
Nabil fell from #2,183 in 2015 to #2,589 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 32.9 to 29.9 per million.
63 babies in 2015, the peak
Nabil peaked in 2015, when 63 boys were given it, #2,183 among boys’ names. The 51 births of 2025 are 81% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51 | #2,589 | 29.9 |
| 2024 | 47 | #2,781 | 27.3 |
| 2023 | 47 | #2,760 | 27.5 |
| 2022 | 57 | #2,457 | 32.6 |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,007 | 23.4 |
| 2020 | 30 | #3,622 | 17.4 |
| 2019 | 47 | #2,721 | 26.2 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,033 | 21.5 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,050 | 21.1 |
| 2016 | 51 | #2,503 | 26.9 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 63 | #2,183 | 32.9 |
| 2014 | 45 | #2,691 | 23.4 |
| 2013 | 31 | #3,466 | 16.4 |
| 2012 | 48 | #2,580 | 25.3 |
| 2011 | 42 | #2,834 | 22.1 |
| 2010 | 47 | #2,614 | 24.5 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,028 | 19.7 |
| 2008 | 38 | #3,084 | 18.6 |
| 2007 | 47 | #2,631 | 22.6 |
| 2006 | 47 | #2,564 | 22.9 |
| 2005 | 46 | #2,478 | 23.0 |
| 2004 | 37 | #2,826 | 18.6 |
| 2003 | 48 | #2,254 | 24.3 |
| 2002 | 60 | #1,880 | 30.9 |
| 2001 | 45 | #2,262 | 23.2 |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,035 | 25.5 |
| 1999 | 40 | #2,287 | 20.8 |
| 1998 | 49 | #1,978 | 25.6 |
| 1997 | 39 | #2,216 | 20.7 |
| 1996 | 36 | #2,281 | 19.0 |
| 1995 | 46 | #1,873 | 24.2 |
| 1994 | 58 | #1,590 | 30.0 |
| 1993 | 41 | #1,987 | 20.9 |
| 1992 | 29 | #2,506 | 14.5 |
| 1991 | 32 | #2,269 | 15.8 |
| 1990 | 32 | #2,240 | 15.6 |
| 1989 | 32 | #2,183 | 16.0 |
| 1988 | 28 | #2,226 | 14.6 |
| 1987 | 22 | #2,525 | 11.8 |
| 1986 | 28 | #2,084 | 15.2 |
| 1985 | 27 | #2,106 | 14.6 |
| 1984 | 21 | #2,412 | 11.6 |
| 1983 | 23 | #2,251 | 12.8 |
| 1982 | 23 | #2,247 | 12.7 |
| 1981 | 15 | #2,988 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 19 | #2,588 | 10.7 |
| 1979 | 17 | #2,739 | 9.9 |
| 1978 | 14 | #3,025 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 9 | #4,056 | 5.5 |
| 1976 | 15 | #2,784 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 22 | #2,107 | 14.1 |
| 1974 | 8 | #4,072 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,359 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,849 | 4.9 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,092 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 7 | #4,105 | 3.8 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,802 | 6.2 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,550 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,345 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nabil a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,010 Americans recorded as Nabil, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 51 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Nabil: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nabil, and how old are they?
1,950 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,010 Americans ever recorded as Nabil. The median Nabil alive today is 23 years old; half are between 11 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 5,530 people named Nabil (122 women and girls, 5,408 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,705 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.2 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 | 142 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 518 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 710 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 584 |
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 Nabil born?
The states with the most babies named Nabil are Minnesota, New York and Virginia, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Minnesota and Virginia are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 8 | #624 | 1.1× |
| New York | 7 | #1,516 | 1.8× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,205 | 0.2× |
Where Nabil is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nabil is most over-represented in New York: since 1966 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Nabil 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, Nabil is the most given (63% of them). In 2025 it was given to 51 of their 77 babies (66%), again the 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 Nabil
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 Nabil and names like it
- Compare Nabil and NabeelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sNabil peaked in 2015.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nabil since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Nabil: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Nabil.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nabil alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.