# Nevil (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/nevil/  
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 | 26 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 26 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1914 | 5 | 3,602 |
| 1919 | 5 | 4,604 |
| 1922 | 6 | 4,172 |
| 1936 | 5 | 3,912 |
| 1965 | 5 | 4,273 |

## People named Nevil

- Nevil Shute, British writer and engineer (1899–1960)
- Nevil Maskelyne, fifth Astronomer Royal (*1765 – †1811)
- Nevil Dede, Albanian footballer (born 1975)
- Nevil Sidgwick, English theoretical chemist (1873–1952)
- Nevil Story Maskelyne, English geologist and politician (1823-1911)
- Nevil Maskelyne, British magician and inventor (1863–1924)

## 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.