Nieves
Recorded 1901–2017 · United States
Nieves was most popular in 1925, when 37 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,351 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,581 people named Nieves.
Nieves over time
How old is the name Nieves?
Nieves first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1901, which makes it about 124 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 105 of the 125 years since. It was last recorded in 2017.
How many people are named Nieves?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 1,581 American births named Nieves between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 882 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Nieves in 2025?
Nieves was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Nieves getting more or less popular?
Nieves is out of use. It averaged 6 births a year a decade ago and has not been recorded in the last five years.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Nieves a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Nieves is a unisex name — 62.4% of the 1,581 Americans given it were girls and 37.6% were boys. It changed hands: since 1950 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Nieves?
Roughly 882 Americans named Nieves are alive today — 56% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 47 years old, and half are between 33 and 68. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Nieves is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org