girls:
26 births since 2006
#5690 (0th percentile)
boys:
96 births since 2003
#4490 (2nd percentile)
overall:
122 births since 2003
#7617 (2nd percentile)
The name Nyel is the #7,617 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 122 recorded births since 2003. This represents the 1.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,490 (2.0% percentile) for all time with 96 births since 2003. For girls, it ranks #5,690 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 26 births since 2006.
Nyel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2003 (2003 for boys and 2006 for girls). Birth data for Nyel is available in 18 out of the 21 years between 2003 and 2023 (15 years for boys and 5 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 Nyel has been given predominantly to boys, with 78.7% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Nyel were boys.
For boys, Nyel reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #897) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Nyel ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 89.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Nyel reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #943) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nyel".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Nyel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 59.4% confident that Nyel is pronounced as NAI-ehl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NAI-uhl, at 28.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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