Nikhil
#2,833 for boys in 2025, 44 births
- Peak · boys
- 1999 · 188 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,404since 1971
Nikhil over time
Rank among boys' names. Nikhil has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,833 | 44 |
| 2024 | #2,527 | 53 |
| 2023 | #2,848 | 44 |
| 2022 | #2,517 | 54 |
| 2021 | #2,109 | 68 |
| 2020 | #2,024 | 70 |
| 2019 | #2,170 | 65 |
| 2018 | #1,886 | 79 |
| 2017 | #1,725 | 90 |
| 2016 | #1,687 | 93 |
| 2015 | #1,388 | 124 |
| 2014 | #1,102 | 173 |
| 2013 | #1,155 | 156 |
| 2012 | #1,155 | 158 |
| 2011 | #1,012 | 190 |
| 2010 | #1,015 | 192 |
| 2009 | #864 | 244 |
| 2008 | #877 | 241 |
| 2007 | #820 | 261 |
| 2006 | #885 | 223 |
| 2005 | #875 | 209 |
| 2004 | #862 | 204 |
| 2003 | #857 | 201 |
| 2002 | #891 | 182 |
| 2001 | #840 | 193 |
| 2000 | #865 | 183 |
| 1999 | #809 | 188 |
| 1998 | #957 | 145 |
| 1997 | #997 | 129 |
| 1996 | #1,021 | 122 |
| 1995 | #1,144 | 100 |
| 1994 | #1,254 | 86 |
| 1993 | #1,168 | 91 |
| 1992 | #1,142 | 93 |
| 1991 | #1,314 | 73 |
| 1990 | #1,730 | 46 |
| 1989 | #1,550 | 52 |
| 1988 | #1,307 | 62 |
| 1987 | #1,175 | 67 |
| 1986 | #1,419 | 49 |
| 1985 | #1,452 | 46 |
| 1984 | #1,606 | 37 |
| 1983 | #1,594 | 37 |
| 1982 | #1,929 | 28 |
| 1981 | #2,086 | 25 |
| 1980 | #2,213 | 23 |
| 1979 | #2,310 | 21 |
| 1978 | #1,913 | 26 |
| 1977 | #3,386 | 11 |
| 1976 | #2,826 | 14 |
| 1975 | #3,078 | 12 |
| 1974 | #3,318 | 10 |
| 1973 | #3,694 | 8 |
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| 1971 | #3,370 | 9 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Nikhil! It came in at #3,370, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1972, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Nikhil
- 306 spots since 2024 (#2,527 → #2,833)
- 809 spots since 2020 (#2,024 → #2,833)
- 1,445 spots since 2015 (#1,388 → #2,833)
- Biggest jump: 148 spots in 1999 (#957 → #809)
- Biggest drop: 151 spots in 2010 (#864 → #1,015)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 1999 at #809 (188 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 17 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 1997–2009
- Highest: 1 in 7,952 boys born in 2007 were named Nikhil (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 38,820 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #809 in 1999, was only 1 in 10,214 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 39.6% of all boys named Nikhil (2,141) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 111 | #1,913 (1978) | #2,987 |
| 1980s | 426 | #1,175 (1987) | #1,633 |
| 1990s | 1,073 | #809 (1999) | #1,154 |
| 2000s | 2,141 | #820 (2007) | #864 |
| 2010s | 1,320 | #1,012 (2011) | #1,430 |
| 2020s | 333 | #2,024 (2020) | #2,476 |
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.
Nikhil in 1988
Top boys' names in 1988
More about 1988
boys
1,914,283 boys got a published name in 1988; 1 in 30,876 of them was named Nikhil, which outranked 84.6% of the 8,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,296Sherrod63
- #1,296Shmuel63
- #1,296Tavon63
- #1,307Nikhil62
- #1,307Abner62
- #1,307Alessandro62
- #1,307Amber62
- #1,319Basil61
- #1,319Brayden61
- #1,319Brien61
Tied with 11 names at #1,307; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.