Nile
About 4,066 American babies have been named Nile since 1895, most of them around 2021. In 2025 it ranked 1,837th. About 3,200 Niles are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Nile boys named Nile
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,066
- Estimated living today
- 3,200
- Median age today
- 18
- Peak year
- 2021
- Best rank
- 1,419th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,837th
- First recorded
- 1895
- Girls / boys
- 370 / 3,696
How old the living Niles are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,066 babies given the name since 1895, about 3,200 are alive — 77 in every hundred. Roughly 1,500 of them are children and 260 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Niles
- Nile Rodgers (born 1952)American record producer, musician and composer
- Nile Wilson (born 1996)British artistic gymnast
- Nile Ranger (born 1991)English footballer
People named Nile with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Nile is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Nile is most concentrated in Iowa (14.5×), California (2.5×), New York (2.4×), Georgia (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2021
The most popular boys’ names the year Nile peaked:
Nile elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Nile | 506 | 596th |
| England and Wales girls | Nile | 30 | 3,447th |
| France boys | Nile | 30 | 6,570th |
| France girls | Nile | 10 | 7,435th |
| Scotland boys | Nile | 8 | 306th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Where Nile lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 341 women called Nile were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bizkaia | Nile | 265 | 0.440 | 319 |
| Gipuzkoa | Nile | 61 | 0.163 | 575 |
| Navarra | Nile | 5 | 0.014 | 2,867 |
Listed in 3 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 49 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Nile against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.