Nigel
Last seen for girls in 1994 at #10,569 · #2,077 for boys in 2025, 71 births
Given to boys 99.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1994 · 448 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 12,286since 1929
Nigel over time
Rank among boys' names. Nigel has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,077 | 71 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,190 | 66 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,047 | 73 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,094 | 71 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,721 | 94 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,849 | 80 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,548 | 108 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,401 | 125 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,219 | 150 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,254 | 146 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,111 | 173 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,188 | 155 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,090 | 170 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,065 | 178 | |
| 2011 | — | #998 | 194 | |
| 2010 | — | #933 | 216 | |
| 2009 | — | #856 | 249 | |
| 2008 | — | #809 | 271 | |
| 2007 | — | #742 | 303 | |
| 2006 | — | #707 | 309 | |
| 2005 | — | #733 | 276 | |
| 2004 | — | #766 | 237 | |
| 2003 | — | #706 | 266 | |
| 2002 | — | #667 | 280 | |
| 2001 | — | #622 | 305 | |
| 2000 | — | #577 | 349 | |
| 1999 | — | #555 | 361 | |
| 1998 | — | #537 | 373 | |
| 1997 | — | #534 | 372 | |
| 1996 | — | #523 | 383 | |
| 1995 | — | #507 | 405 | |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 | #477 | 448 |
| 1993 | — | #487 | 432 | |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 | #519 | 384 |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #567 | 318 |
| 1990 | — | #570 | 315 | |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | #578 | 286 |
| 1988 | — | #611 | 240 | |
| 1987 | — | #635 | 208 | |
| 1986 | — | #621 | 208 | |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | #632 | 194 |
| 1984 | — | #703 | 154 | |
| 1983 | — | #673 | 161 | |
| 1982 | — | #720 | 145 | |
| 1981 | — | #616 | 191 | |
| 1980 | — | #675 | 165 | |
| 1979 | — | #718 | 145 | |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | #778 | 117 |
| 1977 | #5,532 | 11 | #705 | 146 |
| 1976 | — | #748 | 123 | |
| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 | #719 | 132 |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | #847 | 90 |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | #810 | 95 |
| 1972 | — | #851 | 89 | |
| 1971 | — | #828 | 95 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,093 | 56 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,042 | 55 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,131 | 44 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,117 | 44 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,613 | 23 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,483 | 27 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,487 | 28 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,695 | 22 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,546 | 26 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,570 | 26 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,728 | 22 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,709 | 22 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,593 | 24 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,457 | 29 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,091 | 15 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,503 | 26 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,706 | 20 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,531 | 10 | |
| 1952 | — | #2,376 | 11 | |
| 1951 | — | #3,714 | 5 | |
| 1950 | — | #2,580 | 9 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,690 | 5 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,608 | 9 | |
| 1947 | — | #3,096 | 7 | |
| 1946 | — | #3,173 | 6 | |
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| 1941 | — | #2,872 | 7 | |
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| 1936 | — | #3,549 | 5 | |
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| 1934 | — | #2,973 | 7 | |
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| 1929 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
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| 1925 | #4,426 | 6 | — | |
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| 1918 | #4,291 | 6 | — | |
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| 1915 | #4,274 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Nigel! It came in at #3,559, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1930–1933, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Nigel
- 113 spots since 2024 (#2,190 → #2,077)
- 228 spots since 2020 (#1,849 → #2,077)
- 966 spots since 2015 (#1,111 → #2,077)
- Biggest jump: 265 spots in 1971 (#1,093 → #828)
- Biggest drop: 104 spots in 1982 (#616 → #720)
- Debuted 1929
- Peaked 1994 at #477 (448 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 16 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 41 yrs · run 1971–2011
- Highest: 1 in 4,313 boys born in 1994 were named Nigel (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 24,057 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 30.9% of all boys named Nigel (3,791) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 6 | #3,559 (1929) | #3,559 |
| 1930s | 12 | #2,973 (1934) | #3,261 |
| 1940s | 34 | #2,608 (1948) | #3,088 |
| 1950s | 171 | #1,457 (1957) | #2,126 |
| 1960s | 317 | #1,042 (1969) | #1,441 |
| 1970s | 1,088 | #705 (1977) | #810 |
| 1980s | 1,952 | #578 (1989) | #646 |
| 1990s | 3,791 | #477 (1994) | #528 |
| 2000s | 2,845 | #577 (2000) | #719 |
| 2010s | 1,615 | #933 (2010) | #1,181 |
| 2020s | 455 | #1,721 (2021) | #1,996 |
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.
Nigel in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 218,837 of them was named Nigel, which outranked 33.3% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 14,033 of them was named Nigel, which outranked 88.5% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #774Garth118
- #774Lenny118
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- #778Nigel117
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- #778Cleveland117
- #778Cortney117
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- #786Moshe116
- #786Nicky116
Tied with 7 names at #778; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.