Nivea
Nivea was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,911 among girls’ names; 1,331 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,310 Americans named Nivea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 12 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nivea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nivea?
#9,911 among girls’ names, 2025
Nivea fell from #3,900 in 2015 to #9,911 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 21.8 to 6.2 per million.
92 babies in 2003, the peak
Nivea peaked in 2003, when 92 girls were given it, #1,981 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,911 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,498 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,500 | 14.3 |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,757 | 13.4 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,104 | 12.2 |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,419 | 19.2 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,621 | 17.9 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,968 | 15.9 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,664 | 17.4 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,213 | 19.8 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #3,900 | 21.8 |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,307 | 27.4 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,850 | 16.5 |
| 2012 | 68 | #2,648 | 38.6 |
| 2011 | 76 | #2,429 | 43.2 |
| 2010 | 73 | #2,534 | 41.1 |
| 2009 | 67 | #2,724 | 36.5 |
| 2008 | 66 | #2,768 | 34.9 |
| 2007 | 68 | #2,702 | 35.4 |
| 2006 | 61 | #2,878 | 32.1 |
| 2005 | 78 | #2,303 | 42.2 |
| 2004 | 72 | #2,385 | 39.2 |
| 2003 | 92 | #1,981 | 50.4 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,606 | 9.5 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,193 | 6.1 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,645 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,957 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,917 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,059 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,950 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,968 | 4.3 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,378 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,249 | 2.8 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,236 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,377 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,780 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,510 | 13.8 |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,230 | 15.9 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,160 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 29 | #3,049 | 17.5 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,640 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,256 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,265 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,065 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,108 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nivea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nivea has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nivea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nivea, and how old are they?
1,310 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,331 Americans ever recorded as Nivea. The median Nivea alive today is 18 years old; half are between 12 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 1,245 people named Nivea (1,242 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,205 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 | 67 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 142 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 748 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 358 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 2,991 babies since 1880, Nivea is the most given (45% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 64 babies (16%), the second most given that year.
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 Nivea
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 Nivea and names like it
- Compare Nivea and NiviaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNivea peaked in 2003.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nivea since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Nivea.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nivea alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.