as a Last Name
- 23,975
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Nieves
Meaning & Origins
Spanish: 1. religious byname, from the title María de las Nieves ‘Mary of the Snows’, given particularly to children born on 5 August, on which date the Virgin allegedly once caused it to snow in Rome. It is possible that the surname derives in part from a nickname for someone with snow-white hair. 2. Castilianized form of the Galician and Asturian-Leonese habitational name Neves.
| 1,269th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 23,975
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Puerto Rico
- has the most people named Nieves per capita
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