Nirvana
#2,410 for girls in 2025, 74 births · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #12,349
Given to girls 99.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2022 · 117 births
- Debut · girls
- 10 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,634since 1973
Nirvana over time
Rank among girls' names. Nirvana has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,410 | 74 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,203 | 86 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | #1,984 | 99 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,763 | 117 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,266 | 81 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #2,170 | 83 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,043 | 93 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,997 | 98 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,943 | 103 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,269 | 84 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,456 | 74 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,326 | 48 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,703 | 41 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,583 | 44 | — | |
| 2011 | #4,466 | 32 | — | |
| 2010 | #4,306 | 34 | — | |
| 2009 | #4,931 | 29 | — | |
| 2008 | #5,574 | 25 | — | |
| 2007 | #4,213 | 36 | — | |
| 2006 | #4,953 | 28 | — | |
| 2005 | #4,958 | 26 | — | |
| 2004 | #7,391 | 15 | — | |
| 2003 | #4,668 | 27 | — | |
| 2002 | #7,444 | 14 | — | |
| 2001 | #8,196 | 12 | — | |
| 2000 | #5,151 | 22 | — | |
| 1999 | #5,039 | 21 | — | |
| 1998 | #5,363 | 19 | — | |
| 1997 | #5,868 | 16 | — | |
| 1996 | #6,064 | 15 | — | |
| 1995 | #5,221 | 18 | — | |
| 1994 | #6,672 | 13 | — | |
| 1993 | #7,038 | 12 | — | |
| 1992 | #7,067 | 12 | — | |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 | — | |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 | — | |
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| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | — | |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 | — | |
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| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | — | |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | — | |
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| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | — | |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 | — | |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | — | |
| 1977 | #6,892 | 8 | — | |
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| 1973 | #5,191 | 10 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Nirvana! It came in at #5,191, and was given to 10 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1976, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Nirvana
- 207 spots since 2024 (#2,203 → #2,410)
- 240 spots since 2020 (#2,170 → #2,410)
- 46 spots since 2015 (#2,456 → #2,410)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2022 at #1,763 (117 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,018 girls born in 2022 were named Nirvana (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 21,720 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 39.8% of all girls named Nirvana (651) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 31 | #5,191 (1973) | #7,287 |
| 1980s | 29 | #8,778 (1987) | #9,857 |
| 1990s | 149 | #5,039 (1999) | #6,305 |
| 2000s | 234 | #4,213 (2007) | #5,748 |
| 2010s | 651 | #1,943 (2017) | #3,009 |
| 2020s | 540 | #1,763 (2022) | #2,133 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Nirvana in 1973
Top girls' names in 1973
More about 1973
girls
1,458,209 girls got a published name in 1973; 1 in 145,821 of them was named Nirvana, which outranked 47.1% of the 9,810 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,871Zella11
- #4,871Zola11
- #4,871Zonia11
- #5,191Nirvana10
- #5,191Abbi10
- #5,191Adenike10
- #5,191Adonia10
- #5,580Adelaide9
- #5,580Adella9
- #5,580Afi9
Tied with 388 names at #5,191; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.