Nima
Nima is given to both girls and boys: 8 girls and 18 boys were given it in 2025 (#11,639 among girls’ names and #5,336 among boys’, #8,778 among all names counting both); 1,421 Americans have been recorded with it since 1921 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,360 Americans named Nima and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 15 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nima by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nima?
#5,336 among boys’ names, 2025
Nima rose from #10,296 in 2015 to #5,336 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.7 to 10.5 per million.
51 babies in 1992, the peak
Nima peaked in 1992, when 51 babies were given it (41 boys, #1,967 among boys’ names). The 26 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 51% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,639 | 18 | #5,336 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,865 | 14 | #6,378 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,837 | 16 | #5,846 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,493 | 11 | #7,594 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,891 | 15 | #5,949 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,470 | 15 | #5,890 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,407 | 13 | #6,672 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,659 | 9 | #8,623 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,369 | 12 | #6,980 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,272 | 10 | #7,981 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,318 | 7 | #10,296 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,960 | 9 | #8,594 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,650 | 7 | #10,408 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,969 | 8 | #9,458 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,903 | 11 | #7,351 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,138 | 8 | #9,419 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,412 | 13 | #6,704 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,371 | 10 | #8,113 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,577 | 12 | #6,958 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,126 | 20 | #4,631 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,100 | 13 | #6,115 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,792 | 16 | #5,182 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,077 | 23 | #3,808 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,887 | 30 | #3,063 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,820 | 32 | #2,903 |
| 2000 | under 5 | 31 | #2,898 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 32 | #2,702 | |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,643 | 32 | #2,630 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,256 | 31 | #2,589 |
| 1996 | under 5 | 23 | #3,173 | |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,889 | 28 | #2,662 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,400 | 14 | #4,464 |
| 1993 | under 5 | 31 | #2,433 | |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,529 | 41 | #1,967 |
| 1991 | under 5 | 36 | #2,078 | |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,431 | 41 | #1,894 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,873 | 29 | #2,331 |
| 1988 | under 5 | 38 | #1,806 | |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,817 | 37 | #1,780 |
| 1986 | under 5 | 31 | #1,949 | |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,984 | 30 | #1,954 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,622 | 28 | #1,960 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,107 | 22 | #2,320 |
| 1982 | under 5 | 38 | #1,613 | |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,795 | 19 | #2,549 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,603 | 20 | #2,504 |
| 1979 | under 5 | 25 | #2,084 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 17 | #2,633 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 11 | #3,529 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 5 | #6,209 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 5 | #5,522 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 5 | #5,435 | |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,786 | under 5 | |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,572 | under 5 | |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,666 | under 5 | |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,932 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Nima a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,421 Americans recorded as Nima, 26% are girls and 74% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Nima: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nima, and how old are they?
1,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,421 Americans ever recorded as Nima. The median Nima alive today is 28 years old; half are between 15 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 2,932 people named Nima (851 women and girls, 2,081 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,226 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 85 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 538 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 426 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 306 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Nima born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #2,700 | 2.3× |
Where Nima is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nima is most over-represented in California: since 1921 it was given 2.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Nima with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,509 babies since 1880, Nima is the most given (94% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 26 babies (100%), again the 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 Nima
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 Nima and names like it
- Compare Nima and NimaiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sNima peaked in 1992.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nima since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Nima.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Nima alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.