Nigella — girls' name

What the Data Says About Nigella

The Social Security Administration has registered 42 babies named Nigella between 2003 and 2015, spanning 13 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nigella currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 9 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nigella performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 30 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Nigella shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nigella 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 42 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.