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Baby name
Neil
Boy
Origin of the name
Neil comes from the Irish Niall. The astronaut Neil Armstrong made it famous.
Classic name
104,869births since 1880
1950sgeneration
No. 147rank at its peak, in 1954
Where babies named Neil are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Neil is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Neil is most common in North Dakota (2.5 times), South Dakota (2.1) and Minnesota (1.8), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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