Neill is a male first name.
Recently, the name Neill has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Neill. That means that a boy named Neill is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Neill.
If your name is Neill your parents may be very proud to let their son swim against the tide: The name Neill has never ranked higher than position 1,013 in our statistics and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea to choose the name Neill for their son. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1940 to give the name more often than usual – only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Neill because that was several decades ago – unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in your neighborhood.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Neill was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Neill is still very rare. in 2022, for example, it was not given once in the entire U.S. - or, to be precise, we can only say that it was given four times at morst, because names given less than five times in one year are not included in the official statistics. So if you know someone named Neill who was born in 2022, please let us know - we would be very interested in hearing about it so that we can provide you with even more accurate statistics.
The first name Neill is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 109 Americans in total bear this name. And these 109 men are located in only five states: California, Illinois, New York, North Carolina and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Neill and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Neill in relation to it’s male population is North Carolina. And yet even there, only one in 76,432 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Neill present.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: 3.0% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an N. This means that N as the first letter for boys' names is neither particularly common nor rare. The most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With five letters, the name Neill is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, if 3.0% of all boys’ names start with an N, this initial letter is slightly less common than all other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with N that are quite common in the U.S., the most common at present is Nicholas.
If your name is Neill and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Neill, you can simply say:
Nut
Elephant
Igloo
Lion
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Neill
Neill
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
N
E
I
L
L
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
N
E
I
L
L
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Neill sounds like this:
