Girls' name · since 2001
Nimue
109 babies named Nimue in U.S. Social Security records since 2001, with the highest year being 2021. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #26,194 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #13,993 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 109
- born since 2001
- 2020s
- peak decade
109 babies have been named Nimue since 2001, making it today's #13993 girls' name.
Nimue has 109 recorded births among girls since 2001, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #13993 as of the latest data, more common than 19% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2001 to 2025.
- #26,194 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #13,993 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 109 born since 2001
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Nimue ranks #26,194 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #13,993 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 109 born since 2001, peaking in the 2020s.
- #26,194 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #13,993 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 109
- born since 2001
- 2020s
- peak decade
Nimue's 109 recorded births place it above 63.75% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Nimue compares
109 26th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Nimue's all-time total is 71% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Nimue | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 109 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 19 | 21 | 19,840 |
Nimue's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Nimue's full recorded timeline at 2019, 66% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 34% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2007, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2021 peak of 19 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Nimue popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2001–2025
- Peak year (2021)
- 19
- Annual births at peak, across 25 years of records
Nimue by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (62 births, 57% of the file).
2020s was Nimue's strongest decade.
62 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 57% of all-time use.
Nimue births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s 14
2000s
14 births
- 2010s
2010s
33 births
- 2020s
2020s
62 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 62 births (57% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Nimue: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2001–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Nimue draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.