Nilo
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: Nile (a river in northeastern Africa)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nilo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nilo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 2.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 4.2K
- ECEcuador1 in 6.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 169 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈38,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
Nile (a river in northeastern Africa)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Nilo is read(measured from records)
Nilo is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish41%
latín Nilus, del griego Neilos; hebreo 'río', por antonomasia.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Portuguese31%
Nile (a river in northeastern Africa)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English17%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nilo in English.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nilo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Nilo | 64 |
| BR Brazil | #883 | 14,297 | 1 in 15K | 19K | Nilo | 146 |
| PE Peru | #737 | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Nilo | 58 |
| EC Ecuador | #863 | 2,521 | 1 in 6.7K | 2.5K | Nilo | 25 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 153 | Nilo | 45 |
| UY Uruguay | #388 | 416 | 1 in 8.1K | 416 | Nilo | 18 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Nilo is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, forma popular e coloquial, redução de Danilo; talvez também se refira ao rio egípcio.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Vittorioso
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Filipino, Nile (a large river in Africa flowing through Khartoum and Cairo into the Mediterranean Sea, usually considered to be the longest river in the world)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ski, to shine, of a lamp, the moon, etc.
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nil Izvorovb. 1823BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian apostolic vicar
- Nilo Fabrab. 1843ESSpanish writer and journalist (1843–1903)
- Nilo Peçanhab. 1867BRPresident of Brazil (1867-1924)
- Nilo Menéndezb. 1902CUCuban-born American singer, pianist, orchestra leader and songwriter
- Nilo Murtinho Bragab. 1903BRBrazilian footballer (1903-1975)
- Nilo Acuñab. 1943UYUruguayan footballer (1943-2004)
- Nilo Cruzb. 1960CUCuban American playwright
- Nilo Carreterob. 1986ARfootballer
- Federico Nilo Maldinib. 2001ITItalian pistol shooter
- Nilo NeuenhofenDEGerman film director
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 65 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 19K | #1,461 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 14K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 14K | #1,336 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 2.5K | #419 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 416 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 415 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 114 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 50 | #1,062 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 40 | #1,336 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 24 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 24 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 7 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Nilo?
- A machine transcription gives /nilo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Nilo mean, and where does it come from?
- Nile (a river in northeastern Africa) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Nilo a male or female name?
- Nilo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Nilo?
- In the etymology graph, Neilos is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Nilo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 38 thousand people named Nilo in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nilo.
- How common is the name Nilo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 14,297 people named Nilo in 2022, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Nilo compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Nilo is the 388th most common given name of 12,212 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nilo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/niloThe 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, “Nilo” — the 388th most common given name in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.