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Nieve

#10,685 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Nieves

Nieve has been given to 195 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #10,685 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Nieve, 2025

1 in 368,000

Nieve over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nieve: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Nieves

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nieve means

Nieve is a variant of Nieves.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Nieve → Nieves. The family’s meaning is “snows”, recorded in Spanish with the source elements nieves.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nieves.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 195 girls were recorded with the name Nieve between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2005; its best national rank was #9,946 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,095 in 2020 to #10,685 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,690 in 2015 to #10,685 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Nieve?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,685
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nieve sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nieve. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nieves were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nieve was born before 2011 — so the typical Nieve is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
38.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
195
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 38.5% of all recorded uses (75).

Is Nieve rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,175
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,410
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,005
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.13×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
81.8%
Peak was 2005 (11)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,946
2005

Spellings of Nieve

Nieve is not the most common spelling — Maeve is, with 33.7% against Nieve's 0.22%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Nieve around the world

Where Nieve ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,512
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2000–2025
    #474
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2013–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2008–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Nieve by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,685
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,410
Best rank ever
#9,946
2005
Peak year
2005
11 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
195
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Nieve

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

NiemaNielleReeveNielaNiemahNieshiaNiekaNievaNiesaNievesBelieveNieyaSteveNeeveNeveGeneveNierraNielahReveNieshaCleveNietaNiejaNiera

Sibling names for Nieve

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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