Nieve
Nieve was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,685 among girls’ names; 195 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nieve by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nieve?
#10,685 among girls’ names, 2025
Nieve rose from #12,690 in 2015 to #10,685 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 4.5 to 5.6 per million.
11 babies in 2005, the peak
Nieve peaked in 2005, when 11 girls were given it, #9,946 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,685 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,860 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,901 | 5.0 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,998 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,095 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,129 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,184 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,366 | 5.2 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,690 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,168 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 11 | #10,062 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,113 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,046 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,558 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,466 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,957 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,025 | 3.1 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,946 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,476 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,436 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,236 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,766 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,930 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,632 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,152 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nieve a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nieve 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 Nieve: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nieve, and how old are they?
An estimated 193 Americans named Nieve and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 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 476 people named Nieve (457 women and girls, 19 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 159 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Nieve rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,116 babies since 1880, Nieve is the third most given (9.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 64 babies (14%), again the third most given.
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 Nieve
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 Nieve and names like it
- Compare Nieve and NiveaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNieve peaked in 2005.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Nieve.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nieve alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.