Boy
Nigel
Nigel is a boy's name meaning "dark, black". It has cooled since its 1990s peak, though it is still chosen today. As things stand now, it is a distinctive, less common pick. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.
LatinLatin "Nigellus"
EtymologyMeaning "dark, black"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
11
1920s
12
1930s
12
1940s
34
1950s
171
1960s
318
1970s
1,127
1980s
1,962
1990s
3,807
2000s
2,842
2010s
1,377
Peaked in the 1990s · 11,673 total U.S. births since 1900