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How popular is the name Niven?
Births per year, rank history and how many Nivens are alive today.
Niven (male) is a rare boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 4275th in 2025 and given to 4 babies. The name peaked in 2019, when 8 babies were given the name, the 2488th most popular that year.
The Niven you are most likely to meet is around 7 years old - or else around 21: the name has two living generations. Half of all Nivens born in England and Wales are between 7 and 25, and there are at least 100 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Niven - on average, only one in every 3,030 such rooms contains a Niven.
How many babies are named Niven each year?
Where does Niven rank among boys' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Niven most popular?
Niven peaked in 2019, when 8 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Niven?
At least 100 people named Niven born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Niven?
Most living Nivens are between 7 and 25; the most common age is about 7. There is a second cluster around 21.
Is Niven becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.