Niel

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Male Name

Usage

Greenlandic
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Creative spelling of Neil

Related Names

See Niall

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Niel
Genitive:	Niels

- Finnish
Nominative:	Niel
Genitive:	Nielin
Partitive:	Nieliä

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Niel
Genitive:	Niels

- Swedish
Nominative:	Niel
Genitive:	Niels

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden: 1880 (born in Denmark) (maybe misspelled Niels?)

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden:
  • 1900-1919
  • 1930-1939
  • 1950-1969

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden:
  • Sydsverige
  • Nordsverige

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 13 people were named Niel (percentage of first or only given name: 62 %)

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Greenland		0	486	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Sweden		13	35	0	0	13	35
Denmark		16	n.a.	3	n.a.	13	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	6	0	0	n.a.	6
Iceland		1	2	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		7	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	7	n.a.
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Niel.