Niel is a male first name.
Recently, the name Niel 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 Niel. That means that a boy named Niel 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 Niel.
If your name is Niel your parents may be very proud to let their son swim against the tide: The name Niel has never ranked higher than position 1,303 in our statistics and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea to choose the name Niel for their son. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1938 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 Niel 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 Niel was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Niel is still an exception. Even in 2022, the name was given very rarely - in fact, only 13 times in the entire USA. So a Niel of 2022 will need very good binoculars to spot the next namesake of the same age.
The first name Niel is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 39 Americans in total bear this name. And these 39 men are located in only three states: California, New York and Wisconsin (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 Niel 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 Niel in relation to it’s male population is New York. And yet even there, only one in 531,921 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Niel 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 four letters, the name Niel is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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 Niel 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 Niel, you can simply say:
Nut
Igloo
Elephant
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Niel
Niel
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
N
I
E
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
I
E
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. Niel sounds like this:
