Meaning not yet researched.
Niamh: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 43 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,320 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,320 in 2001; #3,561 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Niamh in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,561 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #2,320.
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Niamh: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 43 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,320 in 2001 · most girls in one year: 74 (2008).
In 2025, 43 US girls were named Niamh, making it the 3,561st most common girls’ name of the year, down 401 places from #3,160 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 51 girls named Niamh in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,320, reached in 2001. The most girls given the name in a single year was 74, in 2008. For comparison, it was #4,206 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Niamh in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 5 babies. In all, 1,617 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 636 babies named Niamh.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 398 US girls were named Niamh; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 51. In 2025 that was about 1 in 37,378 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Neve (1,608 babies since 1880) and Niam (1,798 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nieve and Neave 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: Nieve (195), Neave (175).
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 Niamh 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 | 43 | #3,561 | — | — |
| 2024 | 51 | #3,160 | — | — |
| 2023 | 33 | #4,342 | — | — |
| 2022 | 37 | #4,019 | — | — |
| 2021 | 35 | #4,150 | — | — |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,241 | — | — |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,537 | — | — |
| 2018 | 40 | #3,777 | — | — |
| 2017 | 37 | #4,051 | — | — |
| 2016 | 45 | #3,506 | — | — |
| 2015 | 35 | #4,206 | — | — |
| 2014 | 53 | #3,131 | — | — |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,558 | — | — |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,511 | — | — |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,894 | — | — |
| 2010 | 43 | #3,680 | — | — |
| 2009 | 56 | #3,080 | — | — |
| 2008 | 74 | #2,552 | — | — |
| 2007 | 58 | #3,042 | — | — |
| 2006 | 69 | #2,623 | — | — |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,894 | — | — |
| 2004 | 69 | #2,471 | — | — |
| 2003 | 67 | #2,459 | — | — |
| 2002 | 57 | #2,699 | — | — |
| 2001 | 69 | #2,320 | — | — |
| 2000 | 60 | #2,531 | — | — |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,888 | — | — |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,833 | — | — |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,808 | — | — |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,419 | — | — |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,142 | — | — |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,648 | — | — |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,170 | — | — |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,935 | — | — |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,127 | — | — |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,005 | — | — |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,050 | — | — |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,921 | — | — |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,897 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,292 | — | — |
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).