Nill
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Nill is a given name, most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is the 30th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: To be unwilling; will not (+ infinitive).
- NGNigeria1 in 497◐
- OMOman1 in 39K
- BHBahrain1 in 52K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈95 ●
- Sources
- 159 ●
- 1 in 1.7M ◐
across 3 countries
11K records
Official registry-verified
Costa Rica
Meaning & origin●
To be unwilling; will not (+ infinitive).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #30 | 146,656 | 20 rec. | — | — | Nill | 14 |
| US United States | — | 640 | 7.3K rec. | — | 967 | Nill | 159 |
| IN India | — | 443 | 120 rec. | — | 4 | Nill | 31 |
| PH Philippines | — | 98 | 95 rec. | — | — | Nill | 16 |
| BR Brazil | — | 89 | 0 rec. | 1 in 2.4M | 89 | Nill | 2 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 79 | 43 rec. | — | — | Nill | 5 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 71 | 65 rec. | — | — | Nill | 11 |
| SG Singapore | — | 71 | 98 rec. | — | — | Nill | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 53 | 392 rec. | — | — | Nill | 26 |
| DE Germany | — | 37 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Nill | 84 |
| AU Australia | — | 35 | 84 rec. | — | — | Nill | 17 |
| PE Peru | — | 33 | 23 rec. | — | — | Nill | 10 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English75K30%
- 62K25%
- Swahili29K11%
- Indonesian22K9%
- Sinhala18K7%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 75,389 | 30% |
| 61,677 | 25% | |
| Swahili | 28,764 | 11% |
| Indonesian | 22,259 | 9% |
| Sinhala | 18,288 | 7% |
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●
- Nill De Pauwb. 1990CDfootballer
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 24 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 967 | #26,563 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 780 | #30,076 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 775 | #28,888 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 89 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 86 | #44,732 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 61 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 59 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 58 | #26,556 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 42 | #51,219 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 38 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 30 | #27,377 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 28 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 47 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Nill?
- We estimate roughly 95 people bear Nill (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Nill have the most bearers?
- Nill is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled nill.
- How common is Nill compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Nill is the 30th most common given name of 146,224 given names recorded there.
- Is Nill a male or female name?
- Nill 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.
- What does the name Nill mean?
- Recorded meaning: To be unwilling; will not (+ infinitive).
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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, “Nill” — the 30th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.