Niguel
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Niguel has been given to 153 babies in the U.S. since 1988. 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 1998, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Niguel, 2016
1 in 734,000
Niguel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Niguel?
Niguel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2016
- 1 in 734,000
- 5 of 3,669,531 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 380,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2016
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 508,706 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Niguel sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Niguel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Niguels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Niguel was born before 1998 — so the typical Niguel is around 27 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 51.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 88.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 153
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 51.0% of all recorded uses (78).
Is Niguel 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1998 (12)
- Years since peak
- 27
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.5% average annual change
Spellings of Niguel
Niguel is not the most common spelling — Miguel is, with 91.1% against Niguel's 0.07%.
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.
Niguel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Niguel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Niguel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.