girls:
5 births since 2016
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
179 births since 1999
#4407 (4th percentile)
overall:
184 births since 1999
#7555 (2nd percentile)
The name Nihaal is the #7,555 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 184 recorded births since 1999. This represents the 2.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,407 (3.8% percentile) for all time with 179 births since 1999. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2016.
Nihaal first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1999 (1999 for boys and 2016 for girls). Birth data for Nihaal is available in 16 out of the 25 years between 1999 and 2023 (16 years for boys and 1 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 Nihaal has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Nihaal reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #885) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). Despite a peak around 2010, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Nihaal ranks #905 for boys (0.7% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 52.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Nihaal reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #957) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nihaal".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Nihaal. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 50.0% confident that Nihaal is pronounced as nih-HAHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is nee-HAHL, at 21.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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