Given name & surname
Nini
“as solid as a stone”
Nini is used as a given name and a surname. One African interpretation is “as solid as a stone.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One African interpretation is “as solid as a stone.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is African.
How it developed
In French usage, Nini is a diminutive of Virginie.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1968. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Nini through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 164
- 0 boys · 164 girls
- Most popular year
- 1997
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 15 in 1997. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 993 as a first name in 2020; 346 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.
Nini’s family of names
In French usage, Nini is a diminutive of Virginie. Nini has a related form in Ninea. Nini has a related form in Ninee.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 6
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.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Nini
- Nini Roll AnkerNorwegian novelist/playwright (1873-1942)
- Nini TheiladeDanish ballet dancer (1915-2018)
- Nini WaceraKenyan actorborn 1978
- Nini CarlinaIndonesian musicianborn 1976
- Nini TsiklauriGerman actressborn 1992
- Nini von Arx-ZoggSwiss alpine skier (1907-1988)
- Nini BulterijsBelgian composer1929–1989
- Nini Haslund GleditschNorwegian activist1908–1996
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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