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Nils

boy name · Scandinavian origin · 1 syllable

Meaning

champion of the people (Scandinavian form of Nicholas)

Popularity, 1890–2024

1890speak 1960s2020s

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Nils peaked in the 1960s.

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