Nils
Where Nils comes from
Nils 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.
Along the way
- 1869Nils Gustaf Dalén bornSwedish Nobel Laureate and industrialist
- 1888Debut at its peak, #815#815 among boys with 7 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
- 1889The fadeThe first year with half the peak's births.
- 1922Nils Liedholm bornSwedish footballer and manager
In the dictionary
No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.
Namesakes
- Nils Gustaf Dalén · Swedish Nobel Laureate and industrialist, 1869–1937
- Nils Liedholm · Swedish footballer and manager, 1922–2007
- Nils Petersen · German association football player, born 1988
- Nils Edén · Swedish 20th century prime minister, 1871–1945
- Nils van der Poel · Swedish speed skater, born 1996
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.