Nyl
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Nyl is a given name, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and French, written in the Latin script.
- PHPhilippines1 in 259K◐
- SGSingapore1 in 427K
- BEBelgium1 in 864K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈483 ◐
- Sources
- 31 ●
- 1 in 259K ◐
across 10 countries
827 records
Official registry-verified
Philippines
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by estimated bearers.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈422 | 476 rec. | 1 in 259K | — | Nyl | 15 |
| SG Singapore | ≈15 | 27 rec. | 1 in 427K | — | Nyl | 4 |
| BE Belgium | ≈14 | 14 rec. | 1 in 864K | — | Nyl | 4 |
| US United States | ≈12 | 169 rec. | 1 in 27M | — | Nyl | 31 |
| DE Germany | ≈8 | 13 rec. | 1 in 11M | — | Nyl | 8 |
| AU Australia | ≈4 | 16 rec. | 1 in 7.1M | — | Nyl | 4 |
| CA Canada | ≈3 | 23 rec. | 1 in 13M | — | Nyl | 5 |
| BR Brazil | ≈2 | 0 rec. | 1 in 109M | 20 | Nyl | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2 | 8 rec. | 1 in 33M | — | Nyl | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈1 | 2 rec. | 1 in 16M | — | Nyl | 2 |
| PL Poland | — | — | — | 22 | — | — |
| EC Ecuador | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
Roughly 422 people in Philippines bear this name (about 1 in 259K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English62752%
- French21217%
- Spanish797%
- Portuguese555%
- Arabic383%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 627 | 52% |
| French | 212 | 17% |
| Spanish | 79 | 7% |
| Portuguese | 55 | 5% |
| Arabic | 38 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Nyl Yakurab. 1993CACanadian badminton player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 8 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 22 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 22 | #85,225 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 20 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 15 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 15 | #107,274 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 5 | #17,995 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #19,050 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2020 | 1 | — |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 1957 | 1 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 1 | — |
| HT Haiti | Potomitan — Noms et prénoms haïtiens (Haitian name lexicon) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-06 data build · 11 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Nyl?
- We estimate roughly 483 people bear Nyl (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Nyl have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 422 people bear Nyl in the Philippines, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled nyl.
- Where is Nyl most common?
- Nyl is densest in the Philippines, where we estimate about 1 in 259 thousand people carry it.
- Is Nyl a male or female name?
- Nyl is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
Query this name via API
curl https://nelma-api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nylThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nyl”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.