Ninoska — girls' name
106 babies named Ninoska in U.S. Social Security records since 1975, with the highest year being 1989. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
58% of everyone ever named Ninoska was born in this single decade.
10 babies were named Ninoska in 1989 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Ninoska
The Social Security Administration has registered 106 babies named Ninoska between 1975 and 2003, spanning 29 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ninoska currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2003. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 10 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Ninoska performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 61 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Ninoska shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Ninoska in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Ninoska 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 106 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.
Ninoska at a glance
Last recorded 2003Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Ninoska popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2003–1975
- Peak year (1989)
- 10
- Annual births at peak — across 29 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2003.
106 total births across 29 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1989 with 10 births in a single year.
Ninoska by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 61 births that decade — 58% of Ninoska's all-time total
Ninoska decade highlights
- Peak decade 61 births
- Runner-up 25 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Ninoska's strongest decade
61 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 58% of all-time use.
Ninoska by state
Where Ninoska concentrates geographically — total births since 1975
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 5 | 4.7% |
5 of 106 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 4.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 4.7% 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, 1975–2003 (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.