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Nino

#3,727 in 2025Boys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Nino has been given to 2,740 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #3,727 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 54 recorded.

Babies named Nino, 2025

1 in 111,000

Nino over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nino: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nino means

Nino has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Nino

A separate documented entry treats Nino as a short form of Giannino. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

An additional editorial entry explicitly leaves the meaning of Nino uncertain. That qualification belongs to its own naming route, even when another tradition using the same spelling has a known translation. The spelling alone cannot decide which history a family intends.

Origin, language, and formation

Nino is used in Serbo-Croatian and Slovene.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nìkola.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Nino is pronounced /nǐːno/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,719 boys were recorded with the name Nino between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 54 in 1998; its best national rank was #1,356 in 1968.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,743 in 2020 to #3,727 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,900 in 2015 to #3,727 in 2025.

In the United States, 21 girls were recorded with the name Nino between 2006 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2009; its best national rank was #16,708 in 2009.

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 Nino?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 111,000
30 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 56,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,727
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
76,598 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nino sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nino. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ninos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nino was born before 1992 — so the typical Nino is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
15.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
36.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,287
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 15.0% of all recorded uses (407).

Is Nino 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
−647
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−984
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−827
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.73×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
55.6%
Peak was 1998 (54)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,356
1968

Spellings of Nino

Nino is not the most common spelling — Nick is, with 14.8% against Nino's 0.80%.

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 Nino is used

Across 1910–2025, Nino was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 137,655 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in —
  7. 7Michigan1 in —
  8. 8New Jersey1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Nino has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nino around the world

Where Nino 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
    1997–2025
    #2,269
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1999–1999
    #410
    in 1999
  • France
    1914–2025
    #44
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1956–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Nino

People whose public names include Nino, 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.

Nino in other languages

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

Mino

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

Nino by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,727
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 984
Best rank ever
#1,356
1968
Peak year
1998
54 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,719
Count in 2025
30

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#16,708
2009
Peak year
2009
6 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
21
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nino

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

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Names with a curve like Nino

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

GeronimoGasparBaltazarRenatoSvenRoqueAugustinMaximinoGabinoCelsoMannyArmen

Sibling names for Nino

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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