first name
NIGEL
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 14,004 people named Nigel, 52% reported their origin as Black, 30.1% as White and 6.3% as Hispanic or Latino. 99% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Nigel peaked in 1994, when 455 babies got the name.
At least 12,371 babies have been given the name since 1915. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Nigel by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,132. The largest share of babies named Nigel, 36.7%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Nigel is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Nigel has been most common in Georgia (2.6×), Maryland (2.3×), and South Carolina (2.2×), and least common in Missouri (0.28×).
9,198 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Nigel, most common first.
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