Nikhil
Nikhil is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 53 births. Its best rank was 813th, in 1999.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 530.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2007261 births
- Best rank
- #813in 1999
- Since 1971
- 5,360people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,360 boys have been named Nikhil in the United States since 1971, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2007, with 261 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2005, and the 2000s alone account for 40%. It has spent 13 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2007, its biggest year
Nikhil was the 823rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2007 were Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 2007.
Names that rose and fell with Nikhil
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jovannypeak 2006
- Josemanuelpeak 2006
- Miguelangelpeak 2007
- Tyshaunpeak 2006
- Brandopeak 2005
- Derrionpeak 2007
- Damariuspeak 2006
- Jacoreypeak 2009
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.