Girl
Nina
Nina is a girl's name meaning "Spanish diminutive of Ana", drawing on Spanish roots. It peaked in the 1980s and has aged gracefully since then. In the current registry, it is a name plenty of people share. Few names stick around this long: it shows up across almost the entire twelve-decade span this registry covers.
SpanishSpanish diminutive of Ana
EtymologyAlso linked to a word for "strong" in some Indigenous languages
Births by decade
1900s
3,743
1910s
8,697
1920s
11,349
1930s
9,702
1940s
9,519
1950s
12,813
1960s
10,921
1970s
7,284
1980s
13,699
1990s
11,555
2000s
12,876
2010s
8,484
Peaked in the 1980s · 120,642 total U.S. births since 1900