Nile

Where Nile comes from

Nile hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1895
    First appearance
    #1,079 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1896
    Peak, #900
    7 babies named Nile — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1897
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1952
    Nile Rodgers born
    American record producer, musician and composer
  5. 1991
    Nile Ranger born
    English footballer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Nile Rodgers · American record producer, musician and composer, born 1952
  • Nile Ranger · English footballer, born 1991
  • Nile Wilson · British artistic gymnast, born 1996
  • Nile Kinnick · American football player, 1918–1943
  • Nile Marr · British musician and songwriter, born 1992

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.