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Nini

Girls' name

Diminutive of Virginie

Nini has been given to 164 babies in the U.S. since 1968. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1997, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Nini, 2016

1 in 524,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nini: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Virginie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nini means

Nini is a diminutive of Virginie.

Origin, language, and formation

Nini is used in French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Virginie.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Nini is pronounced /ni.ni/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 164 girls were recorded with the name Nini between 1968 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1997; its best national rank was #6,400 in 1997.

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 Nini?

Nini had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 524,000
7 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only
1 in 253,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
363,362 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nini 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 2016 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 363,362 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nini. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ninis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nini was born before 1999 — so the typical Nini is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
42.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
164
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 42.7% of all recorded uses (70).

Is Nini 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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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1997 (15)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,400
1997

Spellings of Nini

Nini is not the most common spelling — Tina is, with 25.9% against Nini's 0.01%.

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 Nini is used

Across 1910–2025, Nini was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,456,184 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 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. Nini has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nini around the world

Where Nini 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
    1929–2019
    #6,955
    in 2019

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

Nini by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,400
1997
Peak year
1997
15 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
164
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nini

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

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Sibling names for Nini

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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