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Nabeel

#4,107 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Nabil

Nabeel has been given to 1,182 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #4,107 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 45 recorded.

Babies named Nabeel, 2025

1 in 128,000

Nabeel over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nabeel: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Nabil

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nabeel means

Nabeel is a alternate transcription of Nabil.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Nabeel → Nabil. The family’s meaning is “noble”, recorded in English with the source elements nabīl.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nabil.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,182 boys were recorded with the name Nabeel between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 45 in 1999; its best national rank was #2,125 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,168 in 2020 to #4,107 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,498 in 2015 to #4,107 in 2025.

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 Nabeel?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 128,000
26 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 65,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,107
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
88,382 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nabeel 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 2025 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 88,382 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nabeel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nabeels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nabeel was born before 2002 — so the typical Nabeel is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
26.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
55.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,182
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 26.6% of all recorded uses (314).

Is Nabeel 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
+180
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,061
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+391
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.18×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
57.8%
Peak was 1999 (45)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,125
1999

Spellings of Nabeel

Nabeel is not the most common spelling — Abel is, with 69.1% against Nabeel's 1.2%.

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.

Where Nabeel is used

Across 1910–2025, Nabeel was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 232,115 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Minnesota1 in —
  6. 6New Jersey1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Nabeel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nabeel around the world

Where Nabeel 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
    1996–2025
    #1,406
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1984–2005
    #400
    in 2005
  • France
    2002–2002
    #4,266
    in 2002
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1950–2013
    #499
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Nabeel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,107
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,061
Best rank ever
#2,125
1999
Peak year
1999
45 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,182
Count in 2025
26

Names similar to Nabeel

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

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Sibling names for Nabeel

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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