Nigil
Nigil was last recorded in 2006, when 5 babies were given it; 91 Americans have been recorded with it between 1989 and 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nigil by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nigil?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,433, in 2006; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1994, the peak
Nigil peaked in 1994, when 11 boys were given it, #5,344 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 5 | #13,433 | 2.4 |
| 2004 | 5 | #12,665 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #12,191 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 7 | #9,106 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,160 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,954 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,657 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,812 | 2.6 |
| 1996 | 5 | #10,073 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,344 | 5.7 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 8 | #6,646 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,994 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,816 | 2.9 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,842 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nigil a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nigil has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 14 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nigil: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nigil, and how old are they?
An estimated 88 Americans named Nigil and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 127 people named Nigil (3 women and girls, 124 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 89 born in the U.S. The Census count is 43% above 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 13,135 babies since 1880, Nigil is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 71 babies recorded by SSA was a Nigil (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Nigil
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 Nigil and names like it
- Compare Nigil and NigelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sNigil peaked in 1994.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Nigil.
- Names starting with NMost given first.