Meaning not yet researched.
Naia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 133 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,509 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,509 in 2023; #1,585 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Naia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,585 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #1,509.
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Naia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 133 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,509 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 143 (2023).
In 2025, 133 US girls were named Naia, making it the 1,585th most common girls’ name of the year, up 262 places from #1,847 in 2024. That is 24 more than the 109 girls named Naia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,509, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 143. For comparison, it was #2,083 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Naia in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1982 with 5 babies. In all, 2,228 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 825 babies named Naia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,104 US girls were named Naia; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 143. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,085 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Naia ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #129 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Naima (4,757 babies since 1880), Naya (6,563 babies since 1880) and Naiya (1,625 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Naiara are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Naiara (549).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Naia in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 7 | #129 | #154 |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #733 | #726 |
| Washington | 8 | #789 | — |
| Florida | 17 | #945 | #1,781 |
| California | 28 | #993 | #2,123 |
| New York | 11 | #1,285 | — |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,300 | — |
| Texas | 8 | #2,565 | #3,652 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 133 | #1,585 | — | — |
| 2024 | 109 | #1,847 | — | — |
| 2023 | 143 | #1,509 | — | — |
| 2022 | 136 | #1,567 | — | — |
| 2021 | 93 | #2,065 | — | — |
| 2020 | 119 | #1,715 | — | — |
| 2019 | 107 | #1,886 | — | — |
| 2018 | 98 | #2,008 | — | — |
| 2017 | 80 | #2,313 | — | — |
| 2016 | 86 | #2,243 | — | — |
| 2015 | 94 | #2,083 | — | — |
| 2014 | 83 | #2,265 | — | — |
| 2013 | 58 | #2,929 | — | — |
| 2012 | 95 | #2,042 | — | — |
| 2011 | 64 | #2,755 | — | — |
| 2010 | 60 | #2,890 | — | — |
| 2009 | 66 | #2,745 | — | — |
| 2008 | 57 | #3,048 | — | — |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,955 | — | — |
| 2006 | 61 | #2,877 | — | — |
| 2005 | 52 | #3,076 | — | — |
| 2004 | 67 | #2,519 | — | — |
| 2003 | 93 | #1,965 | — | — |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,928 | — | — |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,910 | — | — |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,787 | — | — |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,587 | — | — |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,519 | — | — |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,166 | — | — |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,406 | — | — |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,359 | — | — |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,788 | — | — |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,172 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,687 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).