Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Ninfa is a variant of Nereida. An origin associated with Nereida is Greek.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1910. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ninfa through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,464
- 0 boys · 2,464 girls
- Most popular year
- 1928
- 54 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #16,607 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 16,607 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 54 in 1928. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,798 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ninfa
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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