Nabil
Around 140 Polish men carry it, few enough that most people here have never met one. At root it means "noble".
Nabil Pronunciation
Nabil is pronounced NAH-beel (/ˈnabil/).
What Nabil means
Where Nabil comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Nabil comes marked twice. Its origin is traced back to Hebrew, yet the name took its lasting shape in Arabic, where نبيل means noble. That double stamp sits on a single short word.
In Arabic usage, to be nabil is to hold rank without needing a title. The nobility named here is one of character, generosity, and kept promises, the kind a person earns rather than inherits. The sense of "noble" was not decoration added afterward. It is the meaning the word carried from early on.
Real bearers give the name weight. Nabil Fekir, the French footballer, plays under it in front of large crowds, and the name travels well across borders.
Say it once. Two syllables, easy in a Polish class register, easy at the urząd. A child called Nabil answers to a word that means noble.
How many people are named Nabil
1 in 151391 men in Poland is named Nabil. 141 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2763 among male names.
Nabil as a middle name
Nabil is a first name for 141 men in Poland and a middle name for another 42, a 77/23 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1221st, between Iván (42) and Paschalis (42).
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#1219 Ifeanyi42
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#1220 Iván42
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#1221 Nabil42
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#1222 Paschalis42
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#1223 Renard42