Niv
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — one syllable, given to 3 babies a year in England and Wales.
Niv by the numbers
In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Niv. In the US, 6 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 9 babies in 2007, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Niv
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Niv. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.