In 2025, 74 US girls were named Nirvana, making it the 2,428th most common girls’ name of the year, down 213 places from #2,215 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 86 girls named Nirvana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,773, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 117. For comparison, it was #2,469 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nirvana in 45 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 10 babies. In all, 1,646 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 651 babies named Nirvana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 918 US girls were named Nirvana; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 117. In 2025 that was about 1 in 21,720 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nirvana ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #1,826 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.