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Ninette

#16,601 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Nina

Ninette has been given to 825 babies in the U.S. since 1919. In 2025 it ranked #16,601 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1964, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Ninette, 2025

1 in 663,000

Ninette over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ninette: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Nina

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ninette means

Ninette is a diminutive of Nina.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ninette is used in French.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Ninette → Nina → Ни́на. The family’s proposed meaning is “Nina's”, recorded in Russian with the source elements Ни́на.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nina.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 825 girls were recorded with the name Ninette between 1919 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 1964; its best national rank was #2,281 in 1965.

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.

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How common is Ninette?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,601
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ninette 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ninette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ninettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ninette was born before 1968 — so the typical Ninette is around 57 today.

Median birth year
1968
About 57 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
25.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
727
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1960s — 25.6% of all recorded uses (211).

Is Ninette 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
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Rank vs 5 years ago
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Rank vs 10 years ago
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Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
17.9%
Peak was 1964 (28)
Years since peak
61
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,281
1965

Spellings of Ninette

Ninette is not the most common spelling — Annette is, with 49.5% against Ninette's 0.24%.

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.

Where Ninette is used

Across 1910–2025, Ninette was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 438,757 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ninette has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ninette around the world

Where Ninette 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.

  • France
    1910–1972
    #2,570
    in 1972
  • South Australia
    1947–1960
    #617
    in 1960

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ninette by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,601
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#2,281
1965
Peak year
1964
28 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
825
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Ninette

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

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Sibling names for Ninette

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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