Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Nilan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nilan” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Nilan” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Nilan” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Nilan” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Nilan” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Nilan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nilan” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
2006 5 0.000001264 5 -100%
2009 7 0.000001832 7 -100%
2010 6 0.000001623 6 -100%
2011 5 0.000001367 5 -100%
2012 8 0.000002187 8 -100%
2013 11 0.000003017 11 -100%
2014 11 0.000002968 11 -100%
2015 11 0.000002972 11 -100%
2016 21 0.000005724 21 -100%
2017 15 0.000004194 15 -100%
2018 28 0.000007964 28 -100%
2019 42 0.0000121 42 -100%
2020 44 0.000013171 44 -100%
2021 63 0.000018595 63 -100%
2022 44 0.000013006 44 -100%
2023 55 0.00001661 55 -100%
2024 42 0.000012618 42 -100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Nilan:

  1. Nila
  2. Nilah
  3. Nilaja
  4. Nilajah
  5. Nilam
  6. Nilan (this page)
  7. Nilani
  8. Nilay
  9. Nilaya
  10. Nilayah
  11. Nilda