Meaning not yet researched.
Nia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 403 in 2025. Its best rank was #307 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #307 in 2000; #702 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#702 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #307.
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Nia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 403 girls in 2025. Peak: #307 in 2000 · most girls in one year: 1,033 (2000).
In 2025, 403 US girls were named Nia, making it the 702nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 30 places from #672 in 2024. That is 28 fewer than the 431 girls named Nia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #307, reached in 2000. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,033. For comparison, it was #442 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nia in 65 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1951 with 6 babies. In all, 25,432 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 8,571 babies named Nia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,588 US girls were named Nia; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 736. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,988 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nia ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #368 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Mia (310,610 babies since 1880), Nina (134,038 babies since 1880), Ania (3,315 babies since 1880) and Nya (6,006 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nyia, Neah and Nea 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Georgian, Swahili and Welsh. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nyia (676), Neah (554), Nea (417), Neya (287), Nyiah (258), Nghia (216), Niaya (214), Nio (111), Nii (57), Niha (43), Nyya (37), Nyha (32), and more.
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 Nia 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 29 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 16 | #368 | #559 |
| Washington | 16 | #442 | #747 |
| New Jersey | 18 | #443 | #337 |
| Kentucky | 8 | #556 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 19 | #574 | #420 |
| Louisiana | 8 | #582 | #345 |
| New York | 29 | #582 | #307 |
| California | 54 | #599 | #409 |
| Maryland | 8 | #637 | #373 |
| Florida | 27 | #648 | #385 |
| Virginia | 12 | #649 | #385 |
| Texas | 47 | #660 | #453 |
| South Carolina | 7 | #672 | #337 |
| North Carolina | 15 | #676 | #474 |
| Illinois | 14 | #699 | #385 |
| Missouri | 8 | #713 | #551 |
| Georgia | 14 | #741 | #382 |
| Michigan | 9 | #842 | #370 |
| Colorado | 6 | #875 | #352 |
| Ohio | 10 | #944 | #459 |
| Indiana | 6 | #1,003 | #839 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,091 | #458 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 403 | #702 | — | — |
| 2024 | 431 | #672 | — | — |
| 2023 | 460 | #637 | — | — |
| 2022 | 497 | #603 | — | — |
| 2021 | 523 | #580 | — | — |
| 2020 | 618 | #495 | — | — |
| 2019 | 629 | #500 | — | — |
| 2018 | 659 | #473 | — | — |
| 2017 | 632 | #495 | — | — |
| 2016 | 736 | #438 | — | — |
| 2015 | 718 | #442 | — | — |
| 2014 | 654 | #481 | — | — |
| 2013 | 595 | #506 | — | — |
| 2012 | 675 | #464 | — | — |
| 2011 | 604 | #492 | — | — |
| 2010 | 644 | #470 | — | — |
| 2009 | 636 | #483 | — | — |
| 2008 | 681 | #466 | — | — |
| 2007 | 816 | #401 | — | — |
| 2006 | 853 | #381 | — | — |
| 2005 | 782 | #402 | — | — |
| 2004 | 891 | #356 | — | — |
| 2003 | 893 | #346 | — | — |
| 2002 | 961 | #320 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,025 | #310 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,033 | #307 | — | — |
| 1999 | 797 | #368 | — | — |
| 1998 | 891 | #330 | — | — |
| 1997 | 717 | #376 | — | — |
| 1996 | 565 | #448 | — | — |
| 1995 | 495 | #496 | — | — |
| 1994 | 449 | #544 | — | — |
| 1993 | 466 | #522 | 5 | #9,722 |
| 1992 | 306 | #706 | — | — |
| 1991 | 368 | #615 | — | — |
| 1990 | 229 | #862 | — | — |
| 1989 | 143 | #1,156 | 5 | #8,838 |
| 1988 | 135 | #1,135 | — | — |
| 1987 | 109 | #1,290 | — | — |
| 1986 | 169 | #942 | — | — |
| 1985 | 153 | #1,001 | — | — |
| 1984 | 76 | #1,509 | — | — |
| 1983 | 102 | #1,244 | — | — |
| 1982 | 99 | #1,288 | — | — |
| 1981 | 95 | #1,324 | — | — |
| 1980 | 117 | #1,159 | — | — |
| 1979 | 65 | #1,703 | — | — |
| 1978 | 80 | #1,446 | — | — |
| 1977 | 81 | #1,396 | — | — |
| 1976 | 93 | #1,221 | — | — |
| 1975 | 104 | #1,123 | — | — |
| 1974 | 223 | #674 | — | — |
| 1973 | 44 | #1,903 | — | — |
| 1972 | 48 | #1,798 | — | — |
| 1971 | 31 | #2,457 | — | — |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,397 | — | — |
| 1969 | 20 | #3,077 | — | — |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,561 | — | — |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,988 | — | — |
| 1966 | 20 | #2,817 | — | — |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,680 | — | — |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,268 | — | — |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,882 | — | — |
| 1954 | 7 | #5,012 | — | — |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,253 | — | — |
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).