Niva
- #3,832 for girls in 2025, 38 births
- Peak · girls
- 1913 · 7 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 526since 1913
Niva over time
Rank among girls' names. Niva has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,832 | 38 |
| 2024 | #4,893 | 27 |
| 2023 | #4,565 | 30 |
| 2022 | #7,281 | 15 |
| 2021 | #5,398 | 23 |
| 2020 | #6,923 | 16 |
| 2019 | #5,163 | 25 |
| 2018 | #6,010 | 20 |
| 2017 | #6,808 | 17 |
| 2016 | #5,622 | 23 |
| 2015 | #6,036 | 21 |
| 2014 | #6,207 | 20 |
| 2013 | #9,036 | 12 |
| 2012 | #7,456 | 16 |
| 2011 | #7,436 | 16 |
| 2010 | #8,271 | 14 |
| 2009 | #9,379 | 12 |
| 2008 | #8,965 | 13 |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 |
| 2003 | — | |
| 2002 | — | |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 |
| 1998 | — | |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 |
| 1996 | — | |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 |
| 1994 | — | |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 |
| 1992 | — | |
| 1991 | — | |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 |
| 1989 | — | |
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| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 |
| 1983 | — | |
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| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 |
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| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 |
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| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 |
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| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 |
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| 1948 | #4,651 | 6 |
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| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 |
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| 1930 | #4,550 | 5 |
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| 1926 | #3,564 | 8 |
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| 1919 | #4,814 | 5 |
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| 1916 | #4,417 | 5 |
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| 1913 | #2,540 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Niva! It came in at #2,540, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1914–1925, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Niva is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#1,036 · 1 in 5,917
- Texas#2,038 · 1 in 16,054
Best ever in a state: #1,036 in New Jersey, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #1,036 | 6 | 1 in 5,917 |
| Texas | #2,038 | 10 | 1 in 16,054 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Niva
- 1,061 spots since 2024 (#4,893 → #3,832)
- 3,091 spots since 2020 (#6,923 → #3,832)
- 2,204 spots since 2015 (#6,036 → #3,832)
- Debuted 1913
- Peaked 1913 at #2,540 (7 births)
- Births halved by 1914, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 42,297 girls born in 2025 were named Niva (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,540 in 1913, was only 1 in 89,221 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 35.0% of all girls named Niva (184) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 17 | #2,540 (1913) | #3,924 |
| 1920s | 8 | #3,564 (1926) | #3,564 |
| 1930s | 5 | #4,550 (1930) | #4,550 |
| 1940s | 11 | #4,349 (1940) | #4,500 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 12 | #5,891 (1963) | #6,254 |
| 1970s | 16 | #8,562 (1978) | #9,280 |
| 1980s | 23 | #8,178 (1980) | #9,580 |
| 1990s | 27 | #11,783 (1995) | #12,933 |
| 2000s | 74 | #8,965 (2008) | #11,161 |
| 2010s | 184 | #5,163 (2019) | #6,805 |
| 2020s | 149 | #3,832 (2025) | #5,482 |
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.
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