Ninel
Girl · nee-NYEL · Modern
Ninel is a girls' name of Modern origin, meaning “Lenin spelled backwards”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Ninel mean?
Modern: Soviet-era Russian coinage, Lenin spelled backwards
“Lenin spelled backwards”
A Soviet-era Russian name made by reversing the surname of the revolutionary Vladimir Lenin.
- Say it
- nee-NYEL
Is Ninel a girl's or a boy's name?
Ninel is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ninel in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #14,937among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Ninel, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2004, with 55 girls. It first appears in the records in 2002.
2025 had more girls named Ninel than any year since 2013.
Half of all the girls named Ninel in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2008, the years shaded on the chart below.
Ninel in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,146 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,446 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,088 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,011 |
| 2007 | 29 | #4,942 |
| 2006 | 48 | #3,367 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,263 |
| 2004 | 55 | #2,885 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,581 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,810 |
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