Nirvana
#2,428 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nirvana has been given to 1,646 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #2,428 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 117 recorded.
Babies named Nirvana, 2025
1 in 44,800
Nirvana over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Nirvana?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 44,800
- 74 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 21,700
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,428
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 31,054 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nirvana sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 31,054 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nirvana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nirvanas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nirvana was born before 2017 — so the typical Nirvana is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 39.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 85.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,634
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 39.8% of all recorded uses (651).
Is Nirvana 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
- −213
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −240
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +41
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 63.2%
- Peak was 2022 (117)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.4% average annual change
Spellings of Nirvana
Nirvana is not the most common spelling — Ivana is, with 54.6% against Nirvana's 11.1%.
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 Nirvana is used
Across 2016–2025, Nirvana was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 19,177 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 50,000).
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.
Nirvana around the world
Where Nirvana 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 & Wales1996–2025#2,440in 2025
- Scotland2021–2021#792in 2021
- France1994–2025#6,179in 2025
- Canada2008–2024#3,027in 2024
- South Australia1981–2010#801in 2010
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.
Nirvana by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Nirvana
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nirvana
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.