This page shows the Niall (boys) figures from the National Records of Scotland babies' first names table, which covers every year from 1974 to 2025. Each row below is one year in which Niall was recorded as a first name for boys in Scotland: the number of babies given the name that year and the name's rank among Niall's first-name rivals that year — that is, the rank the source table itself gives the row, among all first names for boys that year.

The record for Niall for boys sums every one of those rows. Across the years covered, Niall appears in 52 of them, from 1974 to 2025, with 1,805 babies in total. Its largest single year was 1990, when the table records 65 babies given the name, at rank 92 among all first names for boys that year.

Figures cover every year from 1974 to 2025; years in which the table records no row for Niall for boys are simply not listed. The publisher suppresses names with a total count of 2 or less in Scotland, so no figure here stands below 3.

Year by year

Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names table, 1974 to 2025. Fetched 2026-11-05.

YearBabies given the nameRank among boys' first names
20259367
202416246
202321203
202214271
202121213
202027168
201918244
201820225
201731177
201624209
201519239
201422223
201329183
201224208
201122211
201020221
200919222
200817234
200718215
200624182
200523180
200421181
200324164
200240115
200123160
200032133
199932133
199837127
199742121
199648108
199552107
199455100
199354102
199243117
199159103
19906592
198954101
19884598
198739104
19865493
19854498
19845686
19836086
19825390
19815991
19805785
19794596
19783898
197728106
19764197
197536101
197431107

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