Nene
Nene was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,675 among girls’ names; 199 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nene?
#10,675 among girls’ names, 2025
Nene rose from #14,075 in 2015 to #10,675 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 5.6 per million.
13 babies in 2009, the peak
Nene peaked in 2009, when 13 girls were given it, #9,259 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 69% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,675 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,804 | 7.4 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,053 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,098 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,824 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,569 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,178 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,358 | 5.2 |
| 2015 | 7 | #14,075 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,750 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 10 | #10,795 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,959 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,780 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,390 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,259 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,634 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,029 | 3.6 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,687 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,418 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,219 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,833 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,758 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,128 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,425 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,037 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nene, and how old are they?
An estimated 197 Americans named Nene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,051 people named Nene (828 women and girls, 223 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 156 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 12,532 babies since 1880, Nene is the seventh most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 70 babies (13%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Nene
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Nene and names like it
- Compare Nene and NenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNene peaked in 2009.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nene since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Nene.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Nene alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.