Nivaan

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 40 babies a year in England and Wales.

Babies a year
40
England and Wales, 2025
Rarity
Rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#811
40 babies

Nivaan by the numbers

In 2025, 40 babies in England and Wales were named Nivaan. In the US, 39 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 60 babies in 2015, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Nivaan

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 Nivaan. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Nirvaanenlightenment; liberation from cycle of rebirth25 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Nihaannight4 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Nivan18 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Navaan14 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Nevaan13 in the US (2017)
  • Nivaaz4 in England and Wales (2025)

Sounds like Nivaan

Names that are said the same way as Nivaan, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Nivinlittle bright one; diminutive of Niamh4 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Nivenlittle bone; from gaelic naoimh4 in England and Wales (2025)

Names about as common as Nivaan

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