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Nikhil

#2,868 in 2025Boys' name

Whole, entire

Nikhil has been given to 5,404 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #2,868 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 261 recorded.

Babies named Nikhil, 2025

1 in 75,300

Nikhil over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nikhil: meaning, origin, and history

Whole, entire

Sanskrit

What Nikhil means

Nikhil means “whole, entire”.

Origin, language, and formation

Nikhil is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,404 boys were recorded with the name Nikhil between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 261 in 2007; its best national rank was #811 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,039 in 2020 to #2,868 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,393 in 2015 to #2,868 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 Nikhil?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 75,300
44 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 38,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,868
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
52,226 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nikhil 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 52,226 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nikhil. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nikhils were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nikhil was born before 2005 — so the typical Nikhil is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
39.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,404
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 39.6% of all recorded uses (2,141).

Is Nikhil 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
−321
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−829
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,475
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.35×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
16.9%
Peak was 2007 (261)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#811
1999

Spellings of Nikhil

Nikhil is the most-used spelling, taking 37.8% of the 14,307 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Nikhil is used

Across 2016–2025, Nikhil was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 25,619 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

18 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 12,500
  2. 2New York1 in 14,286
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 16,667
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 20,000
  5. 5Virginia1 in 25,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 50,000
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 50,000

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.

Nikhil around the world

Where Nikhil 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
    #2,133
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2008–2013
    #687
    in 2013
  • France
    1985–2021
    #5,789
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,536
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1993–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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.

Notable people named Nikhil

People whose public names include Nikhil, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Nikhil by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,868
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 829
Best rank ever
#811
1999
Peak year
2007
261 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,404
Count in 2025
44

Names similar to Nikhil

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

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Names with a curve like Nikhil

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Nikhil, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Nikhil

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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