Name meaning & stats
Nils
Nils. 2,446 US babies since 1940, peak 1970.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
In US birth records
Peak year: 1970
2,446 US babies were named Nils between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Nils (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
1 in 3 Niless spell it Nils
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1970)