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Niels

boy name · Scandinavian origin · 1 syllable

Meaning

victory of the people (form of Nicholas); Niels Bohr, physicist who developed the modern model of the atom

Popularity, 1890–2024

1890speak 2020s

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Niels peaked in the 2020s.

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