Nieves
Nieves is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192626 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1901
- 1,581people given the name
The story in the numbers
986 girls have been named Nieves in the United States since 1901, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1926, with 26 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 26 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1953, and the 1920s alone account for 19%.
Nieves is used for both sexes: 38% of its bearers are boys (595), most of them born around 1921.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Nieves | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 10 | |
| 1910s | 71 | |
| 1920s | 183 | |
| 1930s | 118 | |
| 1940s | 83 | |
| 1950s | 67 | |
| 1960s | 61 | |
| 1970s | 60 | |
| 1980s | 114 | |
| 1990s | 76 | |
| 2000s | 106 | |
| 2010s | 37 |
In 1926, its biggest year
Nieves was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1926 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1926.
Names that rose and fell with Nieves
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Natividadpeak 1925
- Audrypeak 1928
- Florentinapeak 1928
- Consuelopeak 1928
- Amparopeak 1927
- Ileenpeak 1924
- Josefinapeak 1930
- Felicitaspeak 1928
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.