Meaning not yet researched.
Nira: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 27 in 2025. Its best rank was #463 in 1933.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #463 in 1933; #4,955 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nira in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,955 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1933, at #463.
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Nira: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 27 girls in 2025. Peak: #463 in 1933 · most girls in one year: 201 (1933).
In 2025, 27 US girls were named Nira, making it the 4,955th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,211 places from #7,166 in 2024. That is 11 more than the 16 girls named Nira in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #463, reached in 1933. That year also had the most girls given the name: 201. For comparison, it was #14,098 in 2015 and #3,008 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nira in 67 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 7 babies. In all, 810 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1930s, with 281 babies named Nira.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 177 US girls were named Nira; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 27. In 2025 that was about 1 in 59,528 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Nyra (2,413 babies since 1880) and Nihira (666 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Niarah, Nihara and Nierra 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: Niarah (35), Nihara (23), Nierra (22), Niaira (10).
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 Nira 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 | 27 | #4,955 | — | — |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,166 | — | — |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,504 | — | — |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,206 | — | — |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,199 | — | — |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,560 | — | — |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,247 | — | — |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,664 | — | — |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,442 | — | — |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,744 | — | — |
| 2015 | 7 | #14,098 | — | — |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,768 | — | — |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,840 | — | — |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,977 | — | — |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,430 | — | — |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,145 | — | — |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,186 | — | — |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,919 | — | — |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,584 | — | — |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,289 | — | — |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,567 | — | — |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,057 | — | — |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,450 | — | — |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,915 | — | — |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,771 | — | — |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,502 | — | — |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,096 | — | — |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,893 | — | — |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,537 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,251 | — | — |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,237 | — | — |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,074 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,841 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,456 | — | — |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,197 | — | — |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,381 | — | — |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,428 | — | — |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,741 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,385 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,342 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,938 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,209 | — | — |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,189 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,565 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,326 | — | — |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,172 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,770 | — | — |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,625 | — | — |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,633 | — | — |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,571 | — | — |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,412 | — | — |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,803 | — | — |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,699 | — | — |
| 1950 | 13 | #3,008 | — | — |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,556 | — | — |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,095 | — | — |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,055 | — | — |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,743 | — | — |
| 1936 | 9 | #3,035 | — | — |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,537 | — | — |
| 1934 | 38 | #1,161 | — | — |
| 1933 | 201 | #463 | 6 | #3,533 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,415 | — | — |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,414 | — | — |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,814 | — | — |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,817 | — | — |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,993 | — | — |
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).