Meaning not yet researched.
Niah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 24 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,377 in 2013.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,377 in 2013; #5,353 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Niah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,353 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2013, at #2,377.
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Niah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 24 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,377 in 2013 · most girls in one year: 77 (2013).
In 2025, 24 US girls were named Niah, making it the 5,353rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,246 places from #3,107 in 2024. That is 28 fewer than the 52 girls named Niah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,377, reached in 2013. That year also had the most girls given the name: 77. For comparison, it was #2,581 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Niah in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1982 with 5 babies. In all, 1,741 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 655 babies named Niah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 556 US girls were named Niah; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 75. In 2025 that was about 1 in 66,969 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Nia (25,432 babies since 1880), Nya (6,006 babies since 1880), Nyah (5,465 babies since 1880) and Niya (4,790 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Niah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,353 | — | — |
| 2024 | 52 | #3,107 | — | — |
| 2023 | 52 | #3,171 | — | — |
| 2022 | 46 | #3,458 | — | — |
| 2021 | 52 | #3,146 | — | — |
| 2020 | 59 | #2,812 | — | — |
| 2019 | 55 | #2,984 | — | — |
| 2018 | 67 | #2,605 | — | — |
| 2017 | 75 | #2,420 | — | — |
| 2016 | 74 | #2,472 | — | — |
| 2015 | 70 | #2,581 | — | — |
| 2014 | 68 | #2,608 | — | — |
| 2013 | 77 | #2,377 | — | — |
| 2012 | 52 | #3,199 | — | — |
| 2011 | 52 | #3,210 | — | — |
| 2010 | 65 | #2,747 | — | — |
| 2009 | 67 | #2,724 | — | — |
| 2008 | 58 | #3,012 | — | — |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,777 | — | — |
| 2006 | 66 | #2,719 | — | — |
| 2005 | 50 | #3,158 | — | — |
| 2004 | 52 | #3,031 | — | — |
| 2003 | 57 | #2,762 | — | — |
| 2002 | 58 | #2,665 | — | — |
| 2001 | 60 | #2,560 | — | — |
| 2000 | 45 | #3,108 | — | — |
| 1999 | 40 | #3,233 | — | — |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,276 | — | — |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,873 | — | — |
| 1996 | 20 | #5,007 | — | — |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,541 | — | — |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,628 | — | — |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,346 | — | — |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,826 | — | — |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,126 | — | — |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,881 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,844 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,634 | — | — |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,258 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,965 | — | — |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,837 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,721 | — | — |
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).