girls:
49 births since 1988
#5667 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.9k births since 1966
#2900 (37th percentile)
overall:
1.9k births since 1966
#5852 (24th percentile)
The name Nabil is the #5,852 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,911 recorded births since 1966. This represents the 24.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 24.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,900 (36.7% percentile) for all time with 1,862 births since 1966. For girls, it ranks #5,667 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 49 births since 1988.
Nabil first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1966 (1966 for boys and 1988 for girls). Birth data for Nabil is available in 57 out of the 58 years between 1966 and 2023 (57 years for boys and 4 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Nabil has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Nabil reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 6.8% percentile (ranked #723) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 31 births per million (ranked 6.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Nabil ranks #869 for boys (4.6% percentile) with 26 births per million, which is 83.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Nabil reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #797) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1992.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nabil".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Nabil. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 42.5% confident that Nabil is pronounced as nuh-BEEL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is nah-BEEL, at 25.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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