Meaning not yet researched.
Nivea: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,982 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,982 in 2003; #9,914 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nivea in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,914 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #1,982.
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Nivea: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,982 in 2003 · most girls in one year: 92 (2003).
In 2025, 10 US girls were named Nivea, making it the 9,914th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,412 places from #7,502 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 15 girls named Nivea in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,982, reached in 2003. That year also had the most girls given the name: 92. For comparison, it was #3,901 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nivea in 45 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 5 babies. In all, 1,331 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 532 babies named Nivea.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 243 US girls were named Nivea; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 35. In 2025 that was about 1 in 160,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Neve (1,608 babies since 1880) and Neveah (5,449 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nivia, Nivi and Niveya are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nivia (560), Nivi (64), Niveya (9), Nyvia (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Nivea in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,914 | — | — |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,502 | — | — |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,505 | — | — |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,760 | — | — |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,108 | — | — |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,421 | — | — |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,622 | — | — |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,972 | — | — |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,666 | — | — |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,214 | — | — |
| 2015 | 39 | #3,901 | — | — |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,309 | — | — |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,852 | — | — |
| 2012 | 68 | #2,648 | — | — |
| 2011 | 76 | #2,430 | — | — |
| 2010 | 73 | #2,534 | — | — |
| 2009 | 67 | #2,725 | — | — |
| 2008 | 66 | #2,768 | — | — |
| 2007 | 68 | #2,702 | — | — |
| 2006 | 61 | #2,878 | — | — |
| 2005 | 78 | #2,305 | — | — |
| 2004 | 72 | #2,388 | — | — |
| 2003 | 92 | #1,982 | — | — |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,612 | — | — |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,200 | — | — |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,652 | — | — |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,962 | — | — |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,922 | — | — |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,065 | — | — |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,956 | — | — |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,975 | — | — |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,384 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,256 | — | — |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,241 | — | — |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,380 | — | — |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,781 | — | — |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,511 | — | — |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,231 | — | — |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,161 | — | — |
| 1980 | 29 | #3,049 | — | — |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,641 | — | — |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,257 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,267 | — | — |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,067 | — | — |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,110 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).