Nygel
Nygel was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 520 Americans have been recorded with it between 1985 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nygel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nygel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,598, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
28 babies in 1999, the peak
Nygel peaked in 1999, when 28 boys were given it, #2,997 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #13,598 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,522 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,905 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,746 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,418 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 17 | #5,449 | 9.2 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,988 | 5.3 |
| 2015 | 7 | #10,304 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,398 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 17 | #5,330 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 11 | #7,400 | 5.8 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,354 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,601 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 13 | #6,705 | 6.6 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,687 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 23 | #4,326 | 11.1 |
| 2006 | 20 | #4,633 | 9.7 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,506 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 21 | #4,215 | 10.6 |
| 2003 | 22 | #3,930 | 11.1 |
| 2002 | 18 | #4,442 | 9.3 |
| 2001 | 20 | #4,066 | 10.3 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,871 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 28 | #2,997 | 14.6 |
| 1998 | 23 | #3,360 | 12.0 |
| 1997 | 27 | #2,875 | 14.3 |
| 1996 | 20 | #3,509 | 10.6 |
| 1995 | 24 | #2,993 | 12.6 |
| 1994 | 21 | #3,295 | 10.9 |
| 1993 | 13 | #4,618 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,181 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,352 | 4.0 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,858 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 9 | #5,087 | 4.7 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,808 | 6.5 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,291 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nygel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nygel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nygel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nygel, and how old are they?
An estimated 509 Americans named Nygel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 16 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 445 people named Nygel (6 women and girls, 439 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 495 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
How common is the spelling Nygel?
Nygel is a less common spelling of Nigel: SSA has recorded 520 Nygel and 12,371 Nigel since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 13,135 babies since 1880, Nygel is the second most given (4.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 71 babies recorded by SSA was a Nygel (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 Nygel
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 Nygel and names like it
- Compare Nygel and NigelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sNygel peaked in 1999.
- South Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nygel since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Nygel.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nygel alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.