Nile — #1936 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Nile

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,609 babies named Nile between 1895 and 2024, spanning 130 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Nile currently holds the #1936 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 129 babies received it in a single year. Nile is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 362 additional births since 1975.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nile performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 648 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Nile shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 224 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Iowa and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Nile in 16 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nile in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,609 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.