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Neil
Pronounced /niːl/
Rank in 2024
#863
Born in 2024
278
Peak year
1954 · #147
Origin
Irish
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 278 boys were named Neil, about 1 in every 6,170.
- It peaked in 1954 with 1,959 babies, ranked #147.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 104,581 boys have been named Neil since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Neil per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.4Greatest1901–27
- 0.9Silent1928–45
- 0.8Boomers1946–64
- 0.8Gen X1965–80
- 0.5Millennials1981–96
- 0.2Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 7,068 babies, 0.42 per 1,000. Silent: 17,605 babies, 0.85 per 1,000. Boomers: 30,633 babies, 0.82 per 1,000. Gen X: 21,821 babies, 0.80 per 1,000. Millennials: 15,968 babies, 0.52 per 1,000. Gen Z: 6,410 babies, 0.20 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 4,496 babies, 0.21 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Anglicized form of Goidelic/Irish Niall. Doublet of Niall.
- A male given name from Irish.
- A surname from Irish derived from the given name.
- Origin
- Irish
- Say it
- /niːl/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Neil, CC BY-SA 4.0.