Nianna
Nianna was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,683 among girls’ names; 128 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nianna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nianna?
#10,683 among girls’ names, 2025
Nianna rose from #12,689 in 2015 to #10,683 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 4.5 to 5.6 per million.
11 babies in 2006, the peak
Nianna peaked in 2006, when 11 girls were given it, #10,413 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,683 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,995 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,926 | 3.1 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,094 | 4.3 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,427 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,957 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,689 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,002 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,788 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,695 | 3.3 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 10 | #11,366 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,040 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,413 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,691 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,035 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,636 | 2.7 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,811 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,493 | 3.3 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,872 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nianna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nianna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nianna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nianna, and how old are they?
An estimated 127 Americans named Nianna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 8 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 134 people named Nianna (133 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 103 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30% above 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 136,325 babies since 1880, Nianna is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 1,004 babies (<1%), the sixth 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 Nianna
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 Nianna and names like it
- Compare Nianna and NinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNianna peaked in 2006.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Nianna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nianna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.