Nils

• Nyils (local variant)

Ultimately from Latin asinus (“donkey”).

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈnils/

Nils m pl

1. A town of the Rosselló (Roussillon) district in Northern Catalonia, now part of the Pyrénées-Orientales department in France. French name: Nyls.

• nilsenc

From Swedish Nils. A variant of the more common Danish Niels.

Nils

1. A male given name.

Nils m

1. A male given name.

Patronymics

• son of Nils: Nilsson
• daughter of Nils: Nilsdóttir

From Swedish Nils.

• IPA^(key): /niːls/

Nils

1. A male given name borrowed from Swedish and Norwegian.

Medieval vernacular form of the Latin saint's name Nicolaus, Nicholaus, ultimately from Ancient Greek Νικόλαος (Nikólaos). Recorded in Norway since the 11th century. Cognate with English Nicholas.

Nils

1. A male given name.

variants:

• Nicolai
• Nikolai
• Niklas

pet form:

• Nisse

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 13 799 males with the given name Nils living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 19th century. Accessed on April 29th, 2011.

Medieval vernacular form of the Latin Nicolaus, ultimately from Ancient Greek Νικόλαος (Nikólaos). First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1455.

Nils c (genitive Nils)

1. A male given name.

• (male given names) Claes, Clas, Klas, Nicklas, Niclas, Niklas, Nikolaus
• (pet form) Nisse
• (feminine names) Nicole
• (surnames) Nilsson

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 137 988 males with the given name Nils living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1920s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.