Ninfa
Ninfa was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,603 among girls’ names; 2,464 Americans have been recorded with it since 1910 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,440 Americans named Ninfa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (58% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 43 and 75.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ninfa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ninfa?
#16,603 among girls’ names, 2025
Ninfa fell from #15,889 in 2015 to #16,603 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 3.4 to 3.1 per million.
54 babies in 1928, the peak
Ninfa peaked in 1928, when 54 girls were given it, #1,025 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,603 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,679 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,409 | 4.2 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,731 | 2.9 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,889 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,173 | 3.9 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,806 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 10 | #11,031 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,414 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,911 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (108)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 6 | #17,039 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,561 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,695 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,726 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,084 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,889 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,191 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,493 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,402 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,848 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,175 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 20 | #5,003 | 11.4 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,393 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,901 | 9.0 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,508 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,916 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,938 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,042 | 7.9 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,616 | 10.8 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,148 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,239 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,964 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,575 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,439 | 10.1 |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,061 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,663 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,816 | 12.6 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,949 | 12.0 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,639 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,119 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 18 | #4,012 | 11.7 |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,253 | 15.0 |
| 1975 | 29 | #2,659 | 19.9 |
| 1974 | 24 | #2,978 | 16.4 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,906 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 24 | #2,876 | 15.8 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,755 | 10.2 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,533 | 10.3 |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,983 | 12.4 |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,945 | 12.2 |
| 1967 | 28 | #2,305 | 17.0 |
| 1966 | 32 | #2,081 | 18.9 |
| 1965 | 21 | #2,727 | 11.9 |
| 1964 | 28 | #2,333 | 14.8 |
| 1963 | 27 | #2,342 | 14.0 |
| 1962 | 34 | #2,013 | 17.3 |
| 1961 | 35 | #1,984 | 17.3 |
| 1960 | 32 | #2,044 | 15.8 |
| 1959 | 38 | #1,812 | 18.8 |
| 1958 | 25 | #2,295 | 12.4 |
| 1957 | 25 | #2,258 | 12.2 |
| 1956 | 41 | #1,674 | 20.4 |
| 1955 | 42 | #1,590 | 21.5 |
| 1954 | 38 | #1,665 | 19.6 |
| 1953 | 41 | #1,545 | 21.8 |
| 1952 | 38 | #1,572 | 20.5 |
| 1951 | 32 | #1,724 | 17.8 |
| 1950 | 42 | #1,425 | 24.5 |
| 1949 | 41 | #1,446 | 24.0 |
| 1948 | 51 | #1,294 | 30.0 |
| 1947 | 51 | #1,282 | 28.8 |
| 1946 | 50 | #1,225 | 31.8 |
| 1945 | 40 | #1,274 | 30.6 |
| 1944 | 27 | #1,595 | 20.3 |
| 1943 | 32 | #1,486 | 22.9 |
| 1942 | 32 | #1,462 | 23.7 |
| 1941 | 39 | #1,217 | 32.3 |
| 1940 | 27 | #1,506 | 23.6 |
| 1939 | 35 | #1,259 | 31.9 |
| 1938 | 42 | #1,123 | 38.1 |
| 1937 | 31 | #1,325 | 29.1 |
| 1936 | 36 | #1,199 | 34.6 |
| 1935 | 26 | #1,477 | 24.8 |
| 1934 | 42 | #1,095 | 40.2 |
| 1933 | 29 | #1,352 | 28.8 |
| 1932 | 33 | #1,288 | 30.9 |
| 1931 | 35 | #1,238 | 32.9 |
| 1930 | 38 | #1,228 | 33.7 |
| 1929 | 32 | #1,361 | 28.7 |
| 1928 | 54 | #1,025 | 46.8 |
| 1927 | 46 | #1,137 | 38.6 |
| 1926 | 43 | #1,175 | 36.3 |
| 1925 | 37 | #1,316 | 30.4 |
| 1924 | 33 | #1,465 | 26.4 |
| 1923 | 38 | #1,279 | 31.5 |
| 1922 | 23 | #1,825 | 19.2 |
| 1921 | 30 | #1,532 | 24.3 |
| 1920 | 16 | #2,339 | 13.4 |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,351 | 13.3 |
| 1918 | 18 | #2,079 | 15.5 |
| 1917 | 17 | #2,072 | 15.7 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,273 | 5.7 |
| 1915 | 15 | #2,114 | 15.2 |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,095 | 9.2 |
| 1913 | 10 | #2,128 | 16.0 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,088 | 16.1 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,909 | 19.1 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,331 | 15.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ninfa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ninfa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 108 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ninfa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ninfa, and how old are they?
1,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 58% of the 2,464 Americans ever recorded as Ninfa. The median Ninfa alive today is 62 years old; half are between 43 and 75.
The 2020 Census counted 3,798 people named Ninfa (3,788 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,623 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 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 | 181 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 541 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 310 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 241 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 126 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 36 |
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 Ninfa born?
The states with the most babies named Ninfa are Texas, California and New York, with 99% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,569 | not ranked | 10.0× |
| California | 103 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 47 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New Mexico | 10 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Ninfa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ninfa is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 10.0 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 girls’ 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 Ninfa with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ninfa
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 Ninfa and names like it
- Compare Ninfa and HortenciaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sNinfa peaked in 1928.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ninfa since 1910.
- The top names of 1928The year the most babies were named Ninfa.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Ninfa alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with NMost given first.