Niall
#1,699 for boys in 2025, 96 births
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 110 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,094since 1955
Niall over time
Rank among boys' names. Niall has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,699 | 96 |
| 2024 | #1,573 | 110 |
| 2023 | #1,787 | 90 |
| 2022 | #1,981 | 77 |
| 2021 | #1,841 | 84 |
| 2020 | #2,113 | 66 |
| 2019 | #2,110 | 68 |
| 2018 | #1,663 | 96 |
| 2017 | #1,897 | 76 |
| 2016 | #2,412 | 53 |
| 2015 | #2,355 | 55 |
| 2014 | #2,138 | 64 |
| 2013 | #1,989 | 69 |
| 2012 | #2,772 | 43 |
| 2011 | #3,235 | 34 |
| 2010 | #5,047 | 18 |
| 2009 | #4,429 | 22 |
| 2008 | #3,344 | 33 |
| 2007 | #3,313 | 33 |
| 2006 | #3,083 | 35 |
| 2005 | #3,447 | 28 |
| 2004 | #2,953 | 34 |
| 2003 | #2,579 | 39 |
| 2002 | #2,882 | 32 |
| 2001 | #2,742 | 34 |
| 2000 | #2,525 | 37 |
| 1999 | #2,608 | 33 |
| 1998 | #2,782 | 29 |
| 1997 | #2,347 | 35 |
| 1996 | #2,332 | 34 |
| 1995 | #2,444 | 31 |
| 1994 | #2,181 | 37 |
| 1993 | #2,209 | 35 |
| 1992 | #2,412 | 30 |
| 1991 | #1,768 | 45 |
| 1990 | #2,553 | 26 |
| 1989 | #2,359 | 28 |
| 1988 | #2,961 | 18 |
| 1987 | #3,201 | 15 |
| 1986 | #2,510 | 21 |
| 1985 | #4,698 | 8 |
| 1984 | #3,925 | 10 |
| 1983 | #4,907 | 7 |
| 1982 | #3,108 | 14 |
| 1981 | #4,509 | 8 |
| 1980 | #3,615 | 11 |
| 1979 | #3,569 | 11 |
| 1978 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #4,582 | 7 |
| 1976 | #3,264 | 11 |
| 1975 | #3,078 | 12 |
| 1974 | #4,190 | 7 |
| 1973 | #4,054 | 7 |
| 1972 | #3,622 | 8 |
| 1971 | #2,366 | 16 |
| 1970 | #2,509 | 14 |
| 1969 | #2,682 | 11 |
| 1968 | #2,735 | 10 |
| 1967 | #3,966 | 5 |
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| 1964 | #2,205 | 14 |
| 1963 | #3,318 | 7 |
| 1962 | #3,305 | 7 |
| 1961 | #3,097 | 8 |
| 1960 | #3,665 | 6 |
| 1959 | #3,290 | 7 |
| 1958 | #3,559 | 6 |
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| 1956 | #3,535 | 6 |
| 1955 | #3,886 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Niall! It came in at #3,886, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1957, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Niall
- 126 spots since 2024 (#1,573 → #1,699)
- 414 spots since 2020 (#2,113 → #1,699)
- 656 spots since 2015 (#2,355 → #1,699)
- Debuted 1955
- Peaked 2024 at #1,573 (110 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 15,663 boys born in 2024 were named Niall (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 17,792 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 27.5% of all boys named Niall (576) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 24 | #3,290 (1959) | #3,568 |
| 1960s | 68 | #2,205 (1964) | #3,122 |
| 1970s | 101 | #2,366 (1971) | #3,539 |
| 1980s | 140 | #2,359 (1989) | #3,579 |
| 1990s | 335 | #1,768 (1991) | #2,364 |
| 2000s | 327 | #2,525 (2000) | #3,130 |
| 2010s | 576 | #1,663 (2018) | #2,562 |
| 2020s | 523 | #1,573 (2024) | #1,832 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Niall in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 18,918 of them was named Niall, which outranked 88.2% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,657Jionni97
- #1,657Obadiah97
- #1,657Samarth97
- #1,663Niall96
- #1,663Aayden96
- #1,663Amauri96
- #1,663Diesel96
- #1,671Abbas95
- #1,671Alexandro95
- #1,671Brexton95
Tied with 7 names at #1,663; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.