Meaning not yet researched.
Nariah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 130 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,145 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,145 in 2009; #1,607 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nariah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,607 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #1,145.
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Nariah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 130 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,145 in 2009 · most girls in one year: 222 (2009).
In 2025, 130 US girls were named Nariah, making it the 1,607th most common girls’ name of the year, up 22 places from #1,629 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 128 girls named Nariah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,145, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 222. For comparison, it was #1,492 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nariah in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 10 babies. In all, 3,521 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,489 babies named Nariah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,223 US girls were named Nariah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 152. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,364 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nariah ranked highest in Alabama in 2025, at #797 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Nariyah (2,127 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nari, Nariya and Naryah 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: Nari (529), Nariya (473), Naryah (408), Naria (320), Nareh (149), Naryiah (129), Narya (88), Nahriah (46), Naariah (17), Narriah (10), Naryia (10).
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 Nariah 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 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 6 | #797 | — |
| South Carolina | 5 | #881 | — |
| Florida | 14 | #1,098 | #1,164 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,142 | #1,350 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,158 | #1,048 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,171 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,197 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,394 | #1,061 |
| Texas | 15 | #1,599 | #1,783 |
| California | 9 | #2,229 | #1,896 |
| New York | 5 | #2,320 | #2,164 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 130 | #1,607 | — | — |
| 2024 | 128 | #1,629 | — | — |
| 2023 | 109 | #1,843 | — | — |
| 2022 | 115 | #1,790 | — | — |
| 2021 | 131 | #1,606 | — | — |
| 2020 | 83 | #2,187 | — | — |
| 2019 | 114 | #1,797 | — | — |
| 2018 | 115 | #1,783 | — | — |
| 2017 | 146 | #1,522 | — | — |
| 2016 | 152 | #1,503 | — | — |
| 2015 | 154 | #1,492 | — | — |
| 2014 | 145 | #1,517 | — | — |
| 2013 | 164 | #1,402 | — | — |
| 2012 | 138 | #1,580 | — | — |
| 2011 | 165 | #1,389 | — | — |
| 2010 | 196 | #1,233 | — | — |
| 2009 | 222 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 2008 | 183 | #1,344 | — | — |
| 2007 | 134 | #1,661 | — | — |
| 2006 | 140 | #1,558 | — | — |
| 2005 | 129 | #1,586 | — | — |
| 2004 | 96 | #1,954 | — | — |
| 2003 | 161 | #1,294 | — | — |
| 2002 | 66 | #2,440 | — | — |
| 2001 | 43 | #3,240 | — | — |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,928 | — | — |
| 1999 | 31 | #3,861 | — | — |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,335 | — | — |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,774 | — | — |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,221 | — | — |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,315 | — | — |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,586 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,035 | — | — |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,846 | — | — |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,405 | — | — |
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).