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Nimue

#14,446 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Nimue has been given to 109 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #14,446 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Nimue, 2025

1 in 553,000

Nimue over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nimue: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nimue means

Nimue is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Nimue is used in Arthurian Cycle.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈnɪm.ə.weɪ/ for Nimue.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 109 girls were recorded with the name Nimue between 2001 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2021; its best national rank was #6,342 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #11,833 in 2020 to #14,446 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #15,888 in 2015 to #14,446 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.

How common is Nimue?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,446
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nimue 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nimue. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nimues were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nimue was born before 2020 — so the typical Nimue is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
56.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
109
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Choose a decade

2020s — 56.9% of all recorded uses (62).

Is Nimue 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
+2,561
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,613
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,442
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
31.6%
Peak was 2021 (19)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
45.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,342
2021

Spellings of Nimue

Nimue is not the most common spelling — Aimee is, with 84.4% against Nimue's 0.17%.

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.

Nimue around the world

Where Nimue 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
    2010–2025
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • France
    2021–2025
    #7,169
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2024–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Nimue by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,446
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,613
Best rank ever
#6,342
2021
Peak year
2021
19 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
109
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Nimue

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

NimritNimcoNimahNimratNimsiNimraNimaNimoNimsyNimishaNimrahNimaniNimarNimatNimonaNimmyNimariNimerah

Sibling names for Nimue

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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