Ninfa
Ninfa 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
- 192854 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1910
- 2,459people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,459 girls have been named Ninfa in the United States since 1910, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1928, with 54 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 54 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1950, and the 1940s alone account for 16%.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Ninfa | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 111 | |
| 1920s | 352 | |
| 1930s | 347 | |
| 1940s | 390 | |
| 1950s | 362 | |
| 1960s | 278 | |
| 1970s | 193 | |
| 1980s | 164 | |
| 1990s | 139 | |
| 2000s | 77 | |
| 2010s | 40 | |
| 2020s | 6 |
In 1928, its biggest year
Ninfa was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1928 were Mary, Betty, Dorothy, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1928.
Names that rose and fell with Ninfa
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Hortenciapeak 1925
- Ernestinapeak 1947
- Veliapeak 1929
- Socorropeak 1929
- Genellpeak 1932
- Darlinepeak 1927
- Joyepeak 1932
- Conchitapeak 1962
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.