Nirvana
Nirvana was given to 74 girls in 2025, #2,428 among girls’ names; 1,646 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,630 Americans named Nirvana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nirvana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nirvana?
#2,428 among girls’ names, 2025
Nirvana rose from #2,469 in 2015 to #2,428 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 41.5 to 46.0 per million.
117 babies in 2022, the peak
Nirvana peaked in 2022, when 117 girls were given it, #1,773 among girls’ names. The 74 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 74 | #2,428 | 46.0 |
| 2024 | 86 | #2,215 | 53.1 |
| 2023 | 99 | #1,997 | 61.7 |
| 2022 | 117 | #1,773 | 71.3 |
| 2021 | 81 | #2,281 | 49.4 |
| 2020 | 83 | #2,188 | 51.3 |
| 2019 | 93 | #2,054 | 55.4 |
| 2018 | 98 | #2,009 | 57.6 |
| 2017 | 103 | #1,950 | 59.7 |
| 2016 | 84 | #2,283 | 47.4 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 74 | #2,469 | 41.5 |
| 2014 | 48 | #3,356 | 26.9 |
| 2013 | 41 | #3,762 | 23.4 |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,630 | 25.0 |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,538 | 18.2 |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,374 | 19.1 |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,052 | 15.8 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,703 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,272 | 18.7 |
| 2006 | 28 | #5,059 | 14.7 |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,069 | 14.1 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,720 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,775 | 14.8 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,716 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,580 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,263 | 12.1 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,153 | 11.8 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,520 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,084 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,288 | 8.6 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,375 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,956 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,342 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,382 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,128 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,364 | 7.4 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,320 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,491 | 4.0 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,241 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,616 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,605 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,808 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,905 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,349 | 5.2 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,456 | 6.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nirvana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nirvana has been given almost only to girls: 12 boys in 45 years of records.
Girls and boys named Nirvana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nirvana, and how old are they?
1,630 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,646 Americans ever recorded as Nirvana. The median Nirvana alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 1,134 people named Nirvana (1,097 women and girls, 37 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,105 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 34 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 114 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 396 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,090 |
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 Nirvana born?
The states with the most babies named Nirvana are California, Texas and Florida, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 9 | #2,231 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,848 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,826 | 0.7× |
Where Nirvana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nirvana is most over-represented in California: since 1973 it was given 1.2 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 Nirvana 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 Nirvana
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 Nirvana and names like it
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- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nirvana since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Nirvana.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Nirvana alive today were born 2013-2025.
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