Nigel Boy Name

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The name Nigel is of English origin, and is an alternate form of Neil. The table below indicates the number of times the name Nigel has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Nigel**
Use of the Name Nigel for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
8,189	8,189	7,164	3,324	1,432	499	234

The table below indicates the number of times the name Nigel has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Nigel first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1971, which is the first year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Nigel**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1971	836	94
1972	858	88
1973	813	95
1974	848	90
1975	729	129
1976	752	123
1977	705	146
1978	787	116
1979	721	144
1980	672	166
1981	628	187
1982	721	146
1983	678	159
1984	706	152
1985	629	195
1986	619	209
1987	633	208
1988	613	239
1989	579	286
1990	573	311
1991	567	317
1992	515	388
1993	487	430
1994	478	447
1995	507	405
1996	524	382
1997	536	372
1998	537	373
1999	557	360
2000	576	349
2001	623	305
2002	667	279
2003	707	265
2004	764	234
Totals:		8,189		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Nigel as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Nigel appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 34 times during the last 125 years.

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Nigel Boy Name

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