Nino
Masculine
Nino is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 2,719 boys against 21 girls since 1880.
Nino is what Italian does with the end of a long name: Giovannino, Antonino and Marino all yield it, and the ending became a name of its own.
How old is the name Nino?
Nino first appears in US birth records in 1912 — 113 years ago. The typical Nino alive today was born around 1993, making them about 32 years old. About 2,200 people named Nino are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Nino most popular?
Nino peaked in 1968, reaching #1339 nationally. Today it ranks #3658, 2,319 places below that high. See the whole 1968 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Nino
Ours, offered as ours. Italian builds affection into names by adding -ino, and after a few generations the ending can come loose and stand alone — Nino, Nino, Nino, whoever the grandfather was. That is a genuinely different way of arriving at a name than English uses: not a clipping of the front but a survival of the tail. The Georgian Nino is a wholly separate name, a women's one, belonging to the saint who brought Christianity to the country in the fourth century.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No single source. Nino is a clipping of the Italian diminutive ending -nino, so it carries whatever the parent name did — Giovanni, Antonio, Marino and others all produce it. Separately, Nino is a women's name in Georgia, after the saint who converted the country, and is unrelated.
Pronouncing Nino
NEE-noh
Two syllables, first stressed. Spanish niño with the tilde is a different word meaning a boy.
Nicknames for Nino
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1912
- Most boys named
- 202348 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1339reached in 1968
- Change vs 2023
- −37.5%30 in 2025, from 48
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Nino in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Nino in Italian — same name
- Niño in Spanish — related form
- Nino in Georgian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, Florida, California. INSEE rounds every published count to the nearest five for statistical confidentiality; the ranks are calculated from the exact figures. International figures from INSEE. Sources
Ninos among us
people named Nino are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 56,936 born in 2025 was named Nino
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Hewitt test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Nino's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Hewitt climbed just as high around 1914, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Hewitt's path sketches the road Nino is walking now.
Nino sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Nino is headed
Nino should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Nino beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Nino in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Four letters and two syllables, very quick to write.
- Open vowels make it easy to say in most languages.
- It has a long and warm history in Italian family use.
- Spanish niño means a boy, and the two are told apart only by the tilde.
- In Georgia it is firmly a women's name, which occasionally surprises.
- It reads as a nickname to Italian speakers, which may matter on a document.
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Frequently asked
- How many Ninos are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,200 people named Nino are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Nino in 2025?
- Nino ranks #3658 among US boy names in 2025, with 30 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Nino?
- About 1 in every 56,936 US boys born in 2025 was named Nino — 30 in all.
- Will my child share the name Nino with classmates?
- Nino will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Nino
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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US figures from the Social Security Administration; international figures from national statistics agencies. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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