Nini
Nini was last recorded in 2016, when 7 babies were given it; 164 Americans have been recorded with it between 1968 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nini by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nini mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Nini is “a diminutive of the female given name Virginie”
/ni.ni/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nini?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,962, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1997, the peak
Nini peaked in 1997, when 15 girls were given it, #6,400 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 7 | #13,962 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,595 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,669 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,716 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,702 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,416 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,794 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,237 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,841 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,898 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 9 | #10,493 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,291 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,874 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,400 | 8.6 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,641 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,544 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,292 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,330 | 3.8 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,841 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,965 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,830 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nini a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nini has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nini: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nini, and how old are they?
An estimated 161 Americans named Nini and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 22 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 993 people named Nini (968 women and girls, 25 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 162 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6.1 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 167,841 babies since 1880, Nini is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,471 babies recorded by SSA was a Nini (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Nini
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 Nini and names like it
- Compare Nini and NinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sNini peaked in 1997.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nini since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Nini: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Nini.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nini alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.