Nilu
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nilu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country. In Syria it is the 56th most common given name.
- SYSyria≈1 in 564as Hala(inferred from the name graph)
- JOJordan≈1 in 662as Hala
- EGEgypt≈1 in 1.5Kas Hala
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Nilu itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 273 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 564 (inferred from the name graph)
≈69,000 named Hala, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Syria, est., as Hala
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hala in SY Syria, EG Egypt, BR Brazil and 2 more and Nila in BD Bangladesh.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nilu counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #122 | ≈69,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | listed | Hala | 123 |
| BD Bangladesh | #217 | ≈64,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Nila | 38 |
| SY Syria | #56 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 564 | 1 | Hala | 53 |
| JO Jordan | #285 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 662 | — | Hala | 96 |
| BR Brazil | — | 14,297as Nilo | 1 in 15K | 19K | Hala | 32 |
| KW Kuwait | #160 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Hala | 58 |
| IS Iceland | — | 501as Halla | 1 in 700 | 535 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Nilu is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In poz-cet-pro, intense sensation in teeth when eating sour fruit; for teeth to be on edge
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In reb, sour sensation (in teeth, bones)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In zlm, nerve-pain
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Nilu a male or female name?
- Nilu is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Nilu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 69 thousand people named Hala in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Nilu?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 14,297 people named Nilo in 2022, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Nilu compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Nilu is the 122nd most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nilu?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/niluThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nilu” — the 122nd most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.