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Eskil

Boys' name

Derived form of Áskell

Eskil has been given to 14 babies in the U.S. since 1915. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1916, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Eskil, 1916

1 in 215,000

Eskil over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eskil: meaning, origin, and history

Derived form of Áskell

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Eskil means

Eskil is a derived form of Áskell.

Origin, language, and formation

Eskil is used in Faroese, Norwegian and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Áskell.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 14 boys were recorded with the name Eskil between 1915 and 1916. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1916; its best national rank was #2,781 in 1916.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Eskil?

Eskil had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1916, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1916
1 in 215,000
9 of 1,934,362 births
Among boys only
1 in 98,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1916
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
148,979 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eskil sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1916 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 148,979 children born in 1916 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eskil. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eskils were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eskil was born before 1916 — so the typical Eskil is around 109 today.

Median birth year
1916
About 109 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1910s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (14).

Is Eskil rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1916 (9)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#2,781
1916

Spellings of Eskil

Eskil is not the most common spelling — Emil is, with 72.6% against Eskil's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Eskil around the world

Where Eskil ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2011–2018
    #4,749
    in 2018
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #152
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Norway. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Eskil by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,781
1916
Peak year
1916
9 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
1916
All-time count
14
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Eskil

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

EskoEskelMakilAhkilWakilJakilAakilNikilMukilEskerShakilAkil

Sibling names for Eskil

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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