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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Nile

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

#1,848

up +100 places

2025 births

86

up +5 births

All-time births

3,696

2% of them in 2025

More common than

95%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2021
129 births
Best rank
#950
in 1896
First recorded
1895
#1,202 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1984
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
120 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 2021129#1,421Peak
  2. 2022110#1,605
  3. 202392#1,770
  4. 202086#1,773
  5. 202586#1,848

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #950 in 1896 · peak births 129 in 2021

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 91% boys■ 9% girls

3,696 boys · 370 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 Nile has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.