Given name

Nivi

“maiden”

Nivi is a feminine given name. It is used in Greenlandic.

Meaning & origin

What it means

Nivi goes back to a word meaning “maiden.”

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2017. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Nivi through the years

Babies since 1880
64
0 boys · 64 girls
Most popular year
2019
13 babies
2025
7
#12,828 for girls
2021–25 vs 2016–20
+13%
Rising
024682025Highest share 20194.4
Nivi in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2017–2025, per million girls born. 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

In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 12,828 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 13 in 2019.

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

NiviNivea

The ring: spellings.

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Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

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Sibling ideas

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