Nilan
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #2,884 for boys in 2025, 43 births
Given to boys 98.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 63 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 461since 2006
Nilan over time
Rank among boys' names. Nilan has never cracked the top 2,000 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #2,884 | 43 |
| 2024 | — | #2,958 | 42 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,441 | 55 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,873 | 44 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,225 | 63 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,759 | 44 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,897 | 42 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,793 | 28 | |
| 2017 | — | #5,788 | 15 | |
| 2016 | — | #4,624 | 21 | |
| 2015 | — | #7,066 | 11 | |
| 2014 | — | #7,048 | 11 | |
| 2013 | — | #7,026 | 11 | |
| 2012 | — | #8,864 | 8 | |
| 2011 | — | #12,287 | 5 | |
| 2010 | — | #10,766 | 6 | |
| 2009 | — | #9,864 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Nilan! It came in at #12,055, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2006–2008, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Nilan
- 74 spots since 2024 (#2,958 → #2,884)
- 125 spots since 2020 (#2,759 → #2,884)
- 4,182 spots since 2015 (#7,066 → #2,884)
- Debuted 2006
- Peaked 2021 at #2,225 (63 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 27,770 boys born in 2021 were named Nilan (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 39,723 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 63.1% of all boys named Nilan (291) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 12 | #9,864 (2009) | #10,960 |
| 2010s | 158 | #2,897 (2019) | #7,016 |
| 2020s | 291 | #2,225 (2021) | #2,690 |
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.
Nilan in 2006
Top boys' names in 2006
More about 2006
boys
2,055,273 boys got a published name in 2006; 1 in 411,055 of them was named Nilan, which outranked 14.2% of the 14,047 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,992 names at #12,055; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.