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Nieves

Nieves is a surname from Spanish. It is used in English and Spanish.

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Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Nieves comes from Spanish.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Spanish Nieves.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1901. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Nieves through the years

Babies since 1880
1,581
595 boys · 986 girls
Most popular year
1925
37 babies
2025
0
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2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Boys Girls
0102030192019401960198020002025Highest share 1926Boys 0.0Girls 0.0
Nieves in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1901–2025, per million births of each sex. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 26 in 1926. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,681 as a first name in 2020; 36,188 as a surname in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Nieves’s family of names

Nieves shares a linguistic root with Neves. Nieves has a conventional naming counterpart in Edurne.

Walk Nieves’s family in the name graph

NievesNieveNivesNevesEdurneNeus

The ring: across languages.

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Across languages 5

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Nieves

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