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Nieves Nieves — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ nee-EH-vehs /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Snows / Our Lady of the Snows (Spanish)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "snows / our lady of the snows (spanish)".

Nieves is a girls' name meaning snows / our lady of the snows (spanish).

Snows / Our Lady of the Snows (Spanish).

The name in its native script.

Nieves
Transliteration
Nieves
Pronunciation
/ niˈɛ.vɛs /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nieves stands.

Nieves does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Nievess before her.

Real people

In fiction
Our Lady of the Snows / Santa Maria Maggiore
Spanish snows + Our Lady of the Snows + 4th c. CE basilica Santa Maria Maggiore Rome + legendary snowfall August 5 358 CE + Catholic Marian heritage
Catholic Marian

Names connected to Nieves.

The number behind Nieves.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nieves reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.