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Ninfa

#16,603 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Nympha

Ninfa has been given to 2,464 babies in the U.S. since 1910. In 2025 it ranked #16,603 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1928, with 54 recorded.

Babies named Ninfa, 2025

1 in 663,000

Ninfa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ninfa: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Nympha

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ninfa means

Ninfa is a form of Nympha.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ninfa is used in Spanish and Italian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈnim.fa/ and /ˈnin.fa/ for Ninfa.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nympha.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,464 girls were recorded with the name Ninfa between 1910 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 54 in 1928; its best national rank was #1,025 in 1928.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #15,889 in 2015 to #16,603 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 Ninfa?

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
#16,603
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ninfa 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 Ninfa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ninfas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ninfa was born before 1950 — so the typical Ninfa is around 75 today.

Median birth year
1950
About 75 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
15.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,264
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1940s — 15.8% of all recorded uses (390).

Is Ninfa 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−714
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.83×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.3%
Peak was 1928 (54)
Years since peak
97
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,025
1928

Spellings of Ninfa

Ninfa is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 63.4% against Ninfa's 0.11%.

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 Ninfa is used

Across 1910–2025, Ninfa was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 24,077 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

013 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 7,692
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3New Mexico1 in 100,000
  4. 4New 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. Ninfa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ninfa around the world

Where Ninfa 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
    1927–1927
    #1,329
    in 1927

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Notable people named Ninfa

People whose public names include Ninfa, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Ninfa in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Ninfa. Linked forms have their own page here.

NinaNimfa

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Ninfa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,603
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#1,025
1928
Peak year
1928
54 that year
First recorded
1910
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,464
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Ninfa

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

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Names with a curve like Ninfa

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ninfa, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

VeliaGeraldBeliaHortenciaEnedinaJoyeLanellArmidaDeloraJimmyEileneBetsey

Sibling names for Ninfa

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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