Meaning not yet researched.
Nihira: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 45 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,383 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,383 in 2022; #3,440 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nihira in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,440 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #2,383.
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Nihira: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 45 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,383 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 78 (2022).
In 2025, 45 US girls were named Nihira, making it the 3,440th most common girls’ name of the year, down 839 places from #2,601 in 2024. That is 23 fewer than the 68 girls named Nihira in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,383, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 78. For comparison, it was #3,518 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nihira in 15 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2006 with 5 babies. In all, 666 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 393 babies named Nihira.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 576 US girls were named Nihira; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 78. In 2025 that was about 1 in 35,717 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Nira (810 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nehara 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: Nehara (6).
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 Nihira 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.
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).