Meaning not yet researched.
Nihal: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 42 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,875 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,875 in 2014; #2,971 in 2025. About 78% of babies named Nihal in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,971 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #2,875.
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Nihal: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 42 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,875 in 2014 · most boys in one year: 42 (2025).
In 2025, 42 US boys were named Nihal, making it the 2,971st most common boys’ name of the year, up 62 places from #3,033 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 41 boys named Nihal in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,875, reached in 2014. The most boys given the name in a single year was 42, in 2025. For comparison, it was #2,900 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 12 US girls were named Nihal, making it the 8,721st most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,220 places from #7,501 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 15 girls named Nihal in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #5,747, reached in 2016. That year also had the most girls given the name: 23. For comparison, it was #9,967 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nihal in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1993 with 7 babies. In all, 1,063 US babies have been given the name, 22% of them girls and 78% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 476 babies named Nihal.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 340 US boys were named Nihal; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 42. In 2025 that was about 1 in 40,668 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nihal ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,030 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Neal (55,305 babies since 1880) and Niall (2,094 babies since 1880).
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Turkish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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 Nihal 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 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 21 | #1,030 | #1,603 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,721 | 42 | #2,971 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,501 | 41 | #3,033 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,085 | 32 | #3,605 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,906 | 25 | #4,258 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,914 | 39 | #3,107 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,376 | 22 | #4,507 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,272 | 34 | #3,407 |
| 2018 | 12 | #9,010 | 30 | #3,678 |
| 2017 | 17 | #7,020 | 37 | #3,175 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,747 | 38 | #3,103 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,967 | 41 | #2,900 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,832 | 41 | #2,875 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,945 | 35 | #3,168 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,973 | 30 | #3,604 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,515 | 30 | #3,576 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,411 | 27 | #3,870 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,360 | 28 | #3,797 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,907 | 25 | #4,108 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,386 | 25 | #4,085 |
| 2006 | — | — | 18 | #5,001 |
| 2005 | — | — | 34 | #3,069 |
| 2004 | — | — | 31 | #3,199 |
| 2003 | — | — | 18 | #4,568 |
| 2002 | — | — | 13 | #5,634 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,212 | 24 | #3,589 |
| 2000 | — | — | 19 | #4,167 |
| 1999 | — | — | 12 | #5,567 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,641 | 6 | #9,295 |
| 1997 | — | — | 6 | #8,943 |
| 1996 | — | — | 6 | #8,684 |
| 1995 | — | — | 9 | #6,260 |
| 1993 | — | — | 7 | #7,386 |
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).