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Nilesh

Boys' name

Dark blue + lord, ruler

Nilesh has been given to 178 babies in the U.S. since 1966. 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 1982, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Nilesh, 2014

1 in 741,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nilesh: meaning, origin, and history

Dark blue + lord, ruler

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nilesh means

Nilesh means “dark blue + lord, ruler”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Nilesh is used in Marathi.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 178 boys were recorded with the name Nilesh between 1966 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1982; its best national rank was #3,204 in 1976.

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.

How common is Nilesh?

Nilesh had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 741,000
5 of 3,706,812 births
Among boys only
1 in 384,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,874 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nilesh 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 2014 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 513,874 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nilesh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nileshs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nilesh was born before 1981 — so the typical Nilesh is around 44 today.

Median birth year
1981
About 44 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
41.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
28.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
178
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 41.0% of all recorded uses (73).

Is Nilesh 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1982 (14)
Years since peak
43
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,204
1976

Spellings of Nilesh

Nilesh is not the most common spelling — Miles is, with 87.4% against Nilesh's 0.13%.

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.

Nilesh around the world

Where Nilesh 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
    1997–2013
    #3,822
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Nilesh by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,204
1976
Peak year
1982
14 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
178
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nilesh

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

NilsonNilayNilanDeveshNiltonNiloVigneshSarveshRameshRiteshDineshMaheshMiteshSureshNikeshNilmarAneeshAvaneeshGaneshAvneeshNareshJayeshHiteshRakesh

Sibling names for Nilesh

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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