Nived
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nived has been given to 59 babies in the U.S. since 2008. 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 2017, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Nived, 2024
1 in 557,000
Nived 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Nived?
Nived 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 557,000
- 6 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 287,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 386,177 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nived sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nived. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Niveds were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nived was born before 2016 — so the typical Nived is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 71.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 59
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 71.2% of all recorded uses (42).
Is Nived 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2017 (11)
- Years since peak
- 8
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 47.4% average annual change
Spellings of Nived
Nived is not the most common spelling — River is, with 44.4% against Nived's 0.07%.
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.
Nived around the world
Where Nived 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 & Wales2024–2024#3,689in 2024
- South Australia2009–2011#784in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Nived by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nived
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nived
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.