Nilan

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Nilan: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Nilan: Recorded since 2015, it reached #779 in 2022, and it stood at #829 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
12times a registrar ranked it
11years from first to last
#779highest recorded position
1grouping it qualifies for

Region

Trend unknown

among girls in England and Wales · 2020

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2020	#5493

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

Trend unknownEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 9 of the 10 years from 2015 to 2024.

In 2022: #779 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1692 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 2015–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2015
First recorded at #4747 among boys in England and Wales in 2015 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2022–2025
Highest recorded position: #779 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2022 (recorded 2022–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #829 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Nilan appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 9 years beginning in 2015, and has registered 79 births with the name.

Nilan across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Nilan's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#4747 (2015)	#1461 (2023)	#1951 (2024)	9 of 10	79 (2015–2024)	17 (2023)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#779 (2022)	#779 (2022)	#829 (2025)	2 of 4	6 (2022–2025)	3 (2022)

Nilan appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Names recorded by exactly 2 registrars

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 2015 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #779 in Republic of Ireland in 2022.

Nilan's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1951	12	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1461	17	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1692	14	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2730	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1935	11	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2266	9	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#4749	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#4812	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#4747	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#779	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 2015 and 2025, ranked in 10 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #779, first reached in 2022.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 17 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2022, and 7 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

2decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 2 decades →
9 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
2separate stretches the record falls into2 separate stretches →
1 yearlongest absence inside the recorded periodA single year missing →
#829position in 2025, its most recent recorded year
7 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 6 to 10 years →
17births registered in its largest year, 2023Under 25 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Nila · #544, 26y
Nilah · #3148, 14y
Nilay · #2425, 18y
Nile · #596, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Isaia · #779, 12y
Abner · #785, 13y
Advay · #785, 15y
Ahan · #785, 14y

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2010 and 2019.

Isaia · #779, 12y
Isla-Rae · #778, 14y
Willow-Grace · #778, 14y
Renesmae · #774, 12y

Nilan was ranked #779 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2022. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Nilan and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Nilan without appearing here.

Nilan moved ahead of

Glenn Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2730 and #2730 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #1461 and #4991.
Daithi Compare
In 2018 they stood at #4749 and #3011 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #2266 and #4702.
Kelly Compare
In 2018 they stood at #4749 and #3011 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #2266 and #4702.
Willow Compare
In 2018 they stood at #4749 and #2445 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #2266 and #4702.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 2015 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #779 in Republic of Ireland in 2022. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Nilan

Nilan at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Nilan across 2 official records

Nilan appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Also first recorded in the 2010s

Names published alongside Nilan

Nilan and the names beside it

Nilan moved ahead of

Nilan at a glance

Nilan across 2 official records

Nilan appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Names published alongside Nilan

Nilan and the names beside it

Nilan moved ahead of