Meaning not yet researched.
Niall: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 96 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,578 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,578 in 2024; #1,706 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Niall in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,706 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,578.
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Niall: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 96 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,578 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 110 (2024).
In 2025, 96 US boys were named Niall, making it the 1,706th most common boys’ name of the year, down 128 places from #1,578 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 110 boys named Niall in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,578, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 110. For comparison, it was #2,380 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Niall in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1955 with 5 babies. In all, 2,094 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 576 babies named Niall.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 816 US boys were named Niall; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 110. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,792 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Niall ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #866 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Neil (105,254 babies since 1880), Neal (55,305 babies since 1880), Nigel (12,371 babies since 1880) and Nell (27,710 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nihaal are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nihaal (232).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Niall in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 5 | #866 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #987 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,212 | — |
| California | 12 | #1,484 | #1,721 |
| New York | 5 | #1,965 | #2,014 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 96 | #1,706 |
| 2024 | — | — | 110 | #1,578 |
| 2023 | — | — | 90 | #1,799 |
| 2022 | — | — | 77 | #1,992 |
| 2021 | — | — | 84 | #1,850 |
| 2020 | — | — | 66 | #2,129 |
| 2019 | — | — | 68 | #2,122 |
| 2018 | — | — | 96 | #1,668 |
| 2017 | — | — | 76 | #1,908 |
| 2016 | — | — | 53 | #2,429 |
| 2015 | — | — | 55 | #2,380 |
| 2014 | — | — | 64 | #2,150 |
| 2013 | — | — | 69 | #2,004 |
| 2012 | — | — | 43 | #2,805 |
| 2011 | — | — | 34 | #3,286 |
| 2010 | — | — | 18 | #5,182 |
| 2009 | — | — | 22 | #4,546 |
| 2008 | — | — | 33 | #3,402 |
| 2007 | — | — | 33 | #3,363 |
| 2006 | — | — | 35 | #3,135 |
| 2005 | — | — | 28 | #3,504 |
| 2004 | — | — | 34 | #2,998 |
| 2003 | — | — | 39 | #2,606 |
| 2002 | — | — | 32 | #2,925 |
| 2001 | — | — | 34 | #2,774 |
| 2000 | — | — | 37 | #2,563 |
| 1999 | — | — | 33 | #2,657 |
| 1998 | — | — | 29 | #2,834 |
| 1997 | — | — | 35 | #2,383 |
| 1996 | — | — | 34 | #2,365 |
| 1995 | — | — | 31 | #2,481 |
| 1994 | — | — | 37 | #2,209 |
| 1993 | — | — | 35 | #2,242 |
| 1992 | — | — | 30 | #2,445 |
| 1991 | — | — | 45 | #1,788 |
| 1990 | — | — | 26 | #2,597 |
| 1989 | — | — | 28 | #2,396 |
| 1988 | — | — | 18 | #3,041 |
| 1987 | — | — | 15 | #3,294 |
| 1986 | — | — | 21 | #2,581 |
| 1985 | — | — | 8 | #5,020 |
| 1984 | — | — | 10 | #4,121 |
| 1983 | — | — | 7 | #5,306 |
| 1982 | — | — | 14 | #3,236 |
| 1981 | — | — | 8 | #4,826 |
| 1980 | — | — | 11 | #3,771 |
| 1979 | — | — | 11 | #3,742 |
| 1978 | — | — | 8 | #4,439 |
| 1977 | — | — | 7 | #4,953 |
| 1976 | — | — | 11 | #3,412 |
| 1975 | — | — | 12 | #3,184 |
| 1974 | — | — | 7 | #4,483 |
| 1973 | — | — | 7 | #4,370 |
| 1972 | — | — | 8 | #3,860 |
| 1971 | — | — | 16 | #2,441 |
| 1970 | — | — | 14 | #2,595 |
| 1969 | — | — | 11 | #2,804 |
| 1968 | — | — | 10 | #2,856 |
| 1967 | — | — | 5 | #4,374 |
| 1964 | — | — | 14 | #2,281 |
| 1963 | — | — | 7 | #3,558 |
| 1962 | — | — | 7 | #3,533 |
| 1961 | — | — | 8 | #3,286 |
| 1960 | — | — | 6 | #3,937 |
| 1959 | — | — | 7 | #3,498 |
| 1958 | — | — | 6 | #3,810 |
| 1956 | — | — | 6 | #3,818 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #4,222 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).