Nile

boys’ nameAt its peak · modern nameCompare

Nile is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 81 births. Its best rank was 950th, in 1896.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 810.00% of boys
Peak year: 2021129 births
Best rank: #950in 1896
Since 1895: 3,971people given the name

Babies named Nile, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

3,609 boys have been named Nile in the United States since 1895, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2021, with 129 births.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2021, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1995, and the 2010s alone account for 18%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 362 girls have also been given it, 9.1% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Nile
1890s	17
1900s	13
1910s	177
1920s	251
1930s	216
1940s	235
1950s	171
1960s	136
1970s	125
1980s	213
1990s	456
2000s	454
2010s	648
2020s	497

In 2021, its biggest year

Nile was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2021 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Elijah and James. See all of 2021.

Names that rose and fell with Nile

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

Nyle2,176 ever

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.