Nihal
49
Babies in 2024
+133%
10-year change
2024
Peak · 49
+96%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Nihal
Nihal is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (49) are up 133% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Nihal reached its peak in 2024, when 49 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #721 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 49 represents 100% of the peak.
Across 28 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 604 boys have been officially registered with the name Nihal in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 281 boys were registered with the name, starting from 21 in 2014 and ending at 49 in 2024.