Meaning not yet researched.
Niam: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 125 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,168 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,168 in 2021; #1,441 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Niam in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,441 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #1,168.
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Niam: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 125 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,168 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 169 (2021).
In 2025, 125 US boys were named Niam, making it the 1,441st most common boys’ name of the year, up 3 places from #1,444 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 126 boys named Niam in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,168, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 169. For comparison, it was #1,378 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Niam in 27 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1993 with 6 babies. In all, 1,798 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 896 babies named Niam.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,369 US boys were named Niam; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 169. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,665 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Niam ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #596 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Niamh (1,617 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Niyam, Niome and Nim 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: Niyam (202), Niome (42), Nim (28), Nieem (25), Niem (14), Neom (5).
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 Niam in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 12 | #596 | #824 |
| Illinois | 14 | #670 | #958 |
| North Carolina | 10 | #853 | #1,255 |
| Maryland | 5 | #885 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,002 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,069 | #913 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,106 | — |
| California | 16 | #1,225 | #1,147 |
| Texas | 14 | #1,392 | #1,237 |
| New York | 7 | #1,519 | #1,135 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 125 | #1,441 |
| 2024 | — | — | 126 | #1,444 |
| 2023 | — | — | 133 | #1,394 |
| 2022 | — | — | 126 | #1,443 |
| 2021 | — | — | 169 | #1,168 |
| 2020 | — | — | 141 | #1,294 |
| 2019 | — | — | 127 | #1,399 |
| 2018 | — | — | 137 | #1,326 |
| 2017 | — | — | 130 | #1,370 |
| 2016 | — | — | 155 | #1,218 |
| 2015 | — | — | 126 | #1,378 |
| 2014 | — | — | 108 | #1,503 |
| 2013 | — | — | 41 | #2,830 |
| 2012 | — | — | 30 | #3,603 |
| 2011 | — | — | 22 | #4,461 |
| 2010 | — | — | 20 | #4,795 |
| 2009 | — | — | 13 | #6,705 |
| 2008 | — | — | 11 | #7,563 |
| 2007 | — | — | 7 | #10,555 |
| 2006 | — | — | 9 | #8,536 |
| 2004 | — | — | 7 | #9,651 |
| 2003 | — | — | 5 | #12,190 |
| 2002 | — | — | 6 | #10,280 |
| 2001 | — | — | 6 | #10,158 |
| 2000 | — | — | 6 | #9,956 |
| 1999 | — | — | 6 | #9,539 |
| 1993 | — | — | 6 | #8,371 |
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).