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Nilton

Boys' name

From English Newton; literal meaning unconfirmed

Nilton has been given to 95 babies in the U.S. since 1930. 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 2000, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Nilton, 2017

1 in 715,000

Nilton over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nilton: meaning, origin, and history

From English Newton; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nilton means

Nilton is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Nilton is used in Portuguese.

Nilton comes through English Newton.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 95 boys were recorded with the name Nilton between 1930 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2000; its best national rank was #4,063 in 1977.

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 Nilton?

Nilton had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 715,000
5 of 3,577,106 births
Among boys only
1 in 370,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
495,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nilton 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 2017 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 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nilton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Niltons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nilton was born before 1992 — so the typical Nilton is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
30.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
49.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
90
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 30.5% of all recorded uses (29).

Is Nilton 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 2000 (10)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,063
1977

Spellings of Nilton

Nilton is not the most common spelling — Colton is, with 21.3% against Nilton's 0.01%.

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.

Nilton around the world

Where Nilton 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.

  • France
    1971–2023
    #5,710
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1976–1976
    #651
    in 1976

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Nilton 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
#4,063
1977
Peak year
2000
10 that year
First recorded
1930
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
95
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nilton

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

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Sibling names for Nilton

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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