Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Nail isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1985. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Nail through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 39
- 39 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 2006. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 321 as a first name in 2020; 5,613 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Nail’s family of names
Nail has a feminine form in Nailah. Nail is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Наил. In German usage, Nail as a surname has a related form in Nagel.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Nail has relatives in 3 languages.
3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Nail
- Nail YakupovRussian ice hockey playerborn 1993
- Nail MukhamedyarovSoviet weightlifterborn 1962
- Nail OmerovićBosnian association football playerborn 2002
- Nail ZamaliyevRussian footballerborn 1989
- Nail H. IbragimovRussian mathematician and mathematical physicist (1939-2018)
- Nail Galimovfootballer1966–2024
- Nail ÇakırhanTurkish journalist and poet (1910–2008)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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