Nirvana
#2,410 for girls in 2025, 74 births · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #12,349
Given to girls 99.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2022 · 117 births
- Debut · girls
- 10 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,634since 1973
Nirvana over time
Rank among girls' names. Nirvana has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,410 | 74 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,203 | 86 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | #1,984 | 99 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,763 | 117 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,266 | 81 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #2,170 | 83 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,043 | 93 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,997 | 98 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,943 | 103 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,269 | 84 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,456 | 74 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,326 | 48 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,703 | 41 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,583 | 44 | — | |
| 2011 | #4,466 | 32 | — | |
| 2010 | #4,306 | 34 | — | |
| 2009 | #4,931 | 29 | — | |
| 2008 | #5,574 | 25 | — | |
| 2007 | #4,213 | 36 | — | |
| 2006 | #4,953 | 28 | — | |
| 2005 | #4,958 | 26 | — | |
| 2004 | #7,391 | 15 | — | |
| 2003 | #4,668 | 27 | — | |
| 2002 | #7,444 | 14 | — | |
| 2001 | #8,196 | 12 | — | |
| 2000 | #5,151 | 22 | — | |
| 1999 | #5,039 | 21 | — | |
| 1998 | #5,363 | 19 | — | |
| 1997 | #5,868 | 16 | — | |
| 1996 | #6,064 | 15 | — | |
| 1995 | #5,221 | 18 | — | |
| 1994 | #6,672 | 13 | — | |
| 1993 | #7,038 | 12 | — | |
| 1992 | #7,067 | 12 | — | |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 | — | |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 | — | |
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| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | — | |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 | — | |
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| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | — | |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | — | |
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| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | — | |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 | — | |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | — | |
| 1977 | #6,892 | 8 | — | |
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| 1973 | #5,191 | 10 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Nirvana! It came in at #5,191, and was given to 10 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1976, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Nirvana is popular in 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Washington#1,081 · 1 in 5,816
- Florida#1,529 · 1 in 10,788
- Texas#1,566 · 1 in 10,891
- California#1,615 · 1 in 11,833
Best ever in a state: #630 in Arizona, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Washington | #1,081 | 5 | 1 in 5,816 |
| Florida | #1,529 | 8 | 1 in 10,788 |
| Texas | #1,566 | 15 | 1 in 10,891 |
| California | #1,615 | 14 | 1 in 11,833 |
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See more about Nirvana
- 207 spots since 2024 (#2,203 → #2,410)
- 240 spots since 2020 (#2,170 → #2,410)
- 46 spots since 2015 (#2,456 → #2,410)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2022 at #1,763 (117 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,018 girls born in 2022 were named Nirvana (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 21,720 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 39.8% of all girls named Nirvana (651) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 31 | #5,191 (1973) | #7,287 |
| 1980s | 29 | #8,778 (1987) | #9,857 |
| 1990s | 149 | #5,039 (1999) | #6,305 |
| 2000s | 234 | #4,213 (2007) | #5,748 |
| 2010s | 651 | #1,943 (2017) | #3,009 |
| 2020s | 540 | #1,763 (2022) | #2,133 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Nirvana in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 18,839 of them was named Nirvana, which outranked 87.6% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,178Violett87
- #2,178Wesley87
- #2,178Zaveah87
- #2,203Nirvana86
- #2,203Acelynn86
- #2,203Debanhi86
- #2,203Doris86
- #2,218Alanah85
- #2,218Azora85
- #2,218Callahan85
Tied with 14 names at #2,203; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 344,578 of them was named Nirvana, which outranked 13.6% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,945 names at #12,349; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.