Nigell
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nigell has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 1992. 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 1992, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Nigell, 1992
1 in 640,000
Nigell over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Nigell?
Nigell had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1992, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1992
- 1 in 640,000
- 6 of 3,839,369 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 333,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1992
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 443,542 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nigell sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1992 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 443,542 children born in 1992 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nigell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nigells were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nigell was born before 1992 — so the typical Nigell is around 33 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 6
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).
Is Nigell 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1992 (6)
- Years since peak
- 33
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Nigell
Nigell is not the most common spelling — Nigel is, with 48.1% against Nigell's 0.02%.
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.
Nigell around the world
Where Nigell 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.
- South Australia1971–1971#512in 1971
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Nigell by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nigell
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nigell
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.