Nigil
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nigil has been given to 91 babies in the U.S. since 1989. 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 1994, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Nigil, 2006
1 in 791,000
Nigil 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Nigil?
Nigil had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2006
- 1 in 791,000
- 5 of 3,956,166 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 411,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2006
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 548,442 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nigil sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2006 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 548,442 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nigil. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nigils were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nigil was born before 1998 — so the typical Nigil is around 27 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 57.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 91
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 57.1% of all recorded uses (52).
Is Nigil 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 1994 (11)
- Years since peak
- 31
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.1% average annual change
Spellings of Nigil
Nigil is not the most common spelling — Neil is, with 50.1% against Nigil's 0.04%.
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.
Nigil around the world
Where Nigil 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.
- Ireland1964–1973#320in 1973
Popularity data from Central Statistics Office. CSO data under CC BY 4.0.
Nigil by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nigil
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nigil
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.