boys:
1.4k births since 1893
#3208 (30th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1893
#6312 (18th percentile)
The name Niels is the #6,312 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,433 recorded births since 1893. This represents the 18.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 18.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,208 (30.0% percentile) for all time with 1,433 births since 1893.
Niels first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1893 (first recorded for boys in 1893). Birth data for Niels is available in 114 out of the 131 years between 1893 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Niels reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 4.0% percentile (ranked #632) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1893, with 41 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Niels ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 9.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Niels".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Niels. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.6% confident that Niels is pronounced as neelz, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NEE-ehlz, at 12.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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