Nigel
Recorded for both sexesMillennial2025 rank
#2,088
up +117 places
2025 births
71
up +5 births
All-time births
12,286
1% of them in 2025
More common than
98%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1994
- 448 births
- Best rank
- #478
- in 1994
- First recorded
- 1929
- #3,834 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1996
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 84 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 1994448#478Peak
- 1993432#488
- 1995405#507
- 1992384#519
- 1996383#523
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #478 in 1994 · peak births 448 in 1994
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 99% boys■ 1% girls
12,286 boys · 85 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Nigel has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.