Nieves — unisex name

What the Data Says About Nieves

The Social Security Administration has registered 986 babies named Nieves between 1901 and 2017, spanning 117 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nieves currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1926, when 26 babies received it in a single year. Nieves is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 595 additional births since 1913.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nieves performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 183 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Nieves shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 300 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Nieves in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nieves in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 986 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.