Nini — girls' name
164 babies named Nini in U.S. Social Security records since 1968, with the highest year being 1997. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
43% of everyone ever named Nini was born in this single decade.
15 babies were named Nini in 1997 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Nini
The Social Security Administration has registered 164 babies named Nini between 1968 and 2016, spanning 49 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nini currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 1997, when 15 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Nini performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 70 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Nini shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Nini in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Nini 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 164 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.
Nini at a glance
Last recorded 2016Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Nini popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2016–1968
- Peak year (1997)
- 15
- Annual births at peak — across 49 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2016.
164 total births across 49 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1997 with 15 births in a single year.
Nini by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 70 births that decade — 43% of Nini's all-time total
Nini decade highlights
- Peak decade 70 births
- Runner-up 63 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Nini's strongest decade
70 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 43% of all-time use.
Nini by state
Where Nini concentrates geographically — total births since 1968
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 5 | 3.0% |
5 of 164 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 3.0% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 3.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1968–2016 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.