girls:
1.3k births since 1975
#4417 (23rd percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1975
#6436 (17th percentile)
The name Nivea is the #6,436 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,306 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 16.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,417 (22.7% percentile) for all time with 1,306 births since 1975.
Nivea first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 (first recorded for girls in 1975). Birth data for Nivea is available in 43 out of the 49 years between 1975 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Nivea reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 9.6% percentile (ranked #820) with 46 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 46 births per million (ranked 9.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2012, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Nivea ranks #929 for girls (1.9% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 28.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nivea".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Nivea. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 58.3% confident that Nivea is pronounced as nih-VEE-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NIH-vee-uh, at 33.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like N IH0 V IY1 AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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