# Nahuel (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/nahuel/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 246 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 246 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 12 | 7,064 |
| 2009 | 15 | 5,999 |
| 2010 | 6 | 11,749 |
| 2011 | 9 | 8,558 |
| 2013 | 7 | 10,391 |
| 2015 | 11 | 7,391 |
| 2016 | 9 | 8,609 |
| 2017 | 12 | 6,981 |
| 2018 | 16 | 5,708 |
| 2019 | 7 | 10,477 |
| 2020 | 7 | 10,264 |
| 2021 | 10 | 7,974 |
| 2022 | 14 | 6,380 |
| 2023 | 8 | 9,479 |
| 2025 | 5 | 13,302 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 | 4,991 |

## People named Nahuel

- Nahuel Molina, Argentine association football player
- Nahuel Guzmán, Argentine association football player
- Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Argentinian actor (born 1986)
- Nahuel Tenaglia, Argentine footballer
- Nahuel Bustos, Argentine association football player
- Nahuel Valentini, footballer
- Nahuel Carabaña, Andorran athletics competitor
- Nahuel Estévez, Argentinian association football player
- Facundo Milán, association football player
- Lucas González, Argentine footballer (born 2000)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.