Nina

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Nina boys named Nina

By the numbers

Total US births

134,038

Estimated living today

89,000

Median age today

39

Peak year

1980

Best rank

148th

Rank in 2025

324th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

133,788 / 250

How old the living Ninas are

born that year still alive today

Of the 134,038 babies given the name since 1880, about 89,000 are alive — 66 in every hundred. Roughly 19,000 of them are children and 19,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1986 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Borrowed into English in the nineteenth century, apparently from several sources. Many borrowings are of Russian Ни́на, the name of a Georgian saint in the fourth century, also known as Nino, of obscure origin and meaning, possibly connected with the Assyrian king Ninus. Others are of an Italian short form of diminutives like Annina from Anna and Giovannina from Giovanna.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Ninas

• Nina Dobrev (born 1989)Bulgarian-Canadian actress
• Nina Simone (1933–2003)American singer, songwriter and pianist and civil rights activist
• Nina Badrić (born 1972)Croatian singer
• Nina Hagen (born 1955)German singer, songwriter, and actress
• Nina Hoss (born 1975)German actress
• Nina Hartley (born 1959)American pornographic film actress
• Nina Zilli (born 1980)Italian singer and songwriter
• Nina Sublati (born 1995)Georgian singer

People named Nina with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Nina is most common

• NY12,312
• CA11,461
• TX7,994
• IL6,845
• PA6,360
• OH4,865
• FL4,441
• MI4,374
• NJ4,195
• NC3,978

Relative to how many babies each state records, Nina is most concentrated in the District of Columbia (1.7×), West Virginia (1.7×), Arkansas (1.6×), New York (1.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1980

The most popular girls’ names the year Nina peaked:

• Jennifer
• Amanda
• Jessica
• Melissa
• Sarah
• Heather

All the names of 1980

Nina elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Nina: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Nina is most concentrated in Uri, where 0.70% of children were given it – 57 of them.

Nina: rank by region

In 2025, Nina was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

In 2024, Nina was among the 10 most common names in 2 regions of Italy.

In 2025, Nina was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Nina appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (12th), Province of Hainaut (16th), Province of Luxembourg (18th), Province of Namur (20th), Province of Liège (27th), Brussels-Capital Region (29th), Province of Walloon Brabant (32nd), Province of Limburg (53rd), Province of Flemish Brabant (65th), Province of East Flanders (74th) and Province of Antwerp (108th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Nina by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Nina among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026, the Netherlands on 1 January 2018 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Nina lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 4,948 women called Nina were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 49 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 3 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Nino
• Ninfa
• Ninette

Nina against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Nina vs Nino
• Nina vs Ninfa
• Nina vs Ninette

Compare Nina with a name of your own