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Nevil

NEV-uhl /ˈnɛvəl/

At a glance

In short
Nevil is a male name with English origins, pronounced as NEV-uhl. It has an elegant and distinguished feel, associated with strength and intelligence.
U.S. rank 2025
Not in the 2025 data · last seen 1965 (#3,930)
Babies in 1965
5 (<0.01% of boys)
Peak
#3,264 in 1914
First recorded
1914

Meaning of Nevil

Nevil is a male name with English origins. A variation of this name is Neville. In terms of popularity in the United States, Nevil has been given to a small number of newborn boys over the years. In 1914, it ranked at 3264, and in 1922, it ranked at 3871. However, there are no available data for other years. Despite its rarity in recent times, Nevil carries a sense of uniqueness and charm. It has an elegant sound and a distinguished feel to it. The name Nevil is associated with qualities such as strength, intelligence, and sophistication.

How to pronounce Nevil

English

Popularity of Nevil in the U.S.

Nevil was last recorded in the U.S. in 1965, ranked #3,930 with 5 babies. It peaked at #3,264 in 1914. It first appears in the records in 1914.

Bar and line chart: Nevil in the U.S., 1914–1965. Bars: boys given the name each year, most 6 in 1922 and 5 in 1965. Line: rank among boy names, peak #3,264 in 1914, #3,930 in 1965.
  • Boys named Nevil (left scale)
  • Rank among U.S. boy names (right scale, #1 at the top)
By year, 1914–1965. Source: SSA. Download: PNG · SVG
Year-by-year table, 1914⁠–⁠1965 5 rows
YearBabiesRankvs previous year
196553,930back
193653,549back
192263,872back
191954,168back
191453,264new

Notable people named Nevil

  • Nevil Shute was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer best known for On the Beach and A Town Like Alice.
  • Nevil Maskelyne was a British Astronomer Royal who first scientifically measured Earth's mass and created The Nautical Almanac.
  • Nevil Vincent Sidgwick was an English chemist known for advancing the understanding of valency and chemical bonding.
  • Nevil Martin Schoenmakers was an Australian-born cannabis breeder who founded the first cannabis seed bank in the Netherlands in the early 1980s.
  • Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story Maskelyne was an English geologist and politician.
  • Nevil Maskelyne was a British magician and inventor born in 1863.