Ninna

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Ninna has been given to 61 babies in the U.S. since 1987. 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 1987, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Ninna, 2024

1 in 669,000

Ninna over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ninna: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ninna means

Ninna is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Ninna is used in Danish and Faroese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 61 girls were recorded with the name Ninna between 1987 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1987; its best national rank was #8,501 in 1987.

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 Ninna?

Ninna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 669,000; 5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only: 1 in 324,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 463,412 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Ninna 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ninna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ninnas were born

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

Median birth year: 2011; About 14 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 44.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 68.9%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 61; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 44.3% of all recorded uses (27).

Is Ninna 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: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1987 (8)
Years since peak: 38; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Very steady; 0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #8,501; 1987

Spellings of Ninna

Ninna is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 28.1% against Ninna's <0.01%.

Linda28.1%1,455,143
Anna17.7%914,859
Donna16.1%831,641
Diana7.1%368,487
Tina5.6%292,146
Gina3.0%153,057
Jenna2.9%148,587
Nina2.6%133,788

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.

Ninna around the world

Where Ninna 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
2011–2025
#6,248
in 2025
South Australia
2012–2012
#871
in 2012

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.

Ninna 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: #8,501; 1987
Peak year: 1987; 8 that year
First recorded: 1987
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 61
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Ninna

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

Rinna Ninel Nineveh Fenna Ninti Wyonna Ninon Aianna Ninja Xienna Kienna Ninah Manna Menna Ranna Lienna Ahnna Canna Mionna Jhanna Nianna Ninive Ionna Kanna

Sibling names for Ninna

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

For a sister

Shantell Janay Ashely Kassie Anthony Kyle Cody Domonique

For a brother

Derik Derrell Darell Whitney Shea Elizabeth Kelsey Garrick

Explore around Ninna

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