Meaning not yet researched.
Niya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 61 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,022 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,022 in 2001; #2,807 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Niya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,807 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #1,022.
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Niya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 61 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,022 in 2001 · most girls in one year: 211 (2001).
In 2025, 61 US girls were named Niya, making it the 2,807th most common girls’ name of the year, down 403 places from #2,404 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 76 girls named Niya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,022, reached in 2001. That year also had the most girls given the name: 211. For comparison, it was #1,726 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Niya in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 7 babies. In all, 4,790 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,684 babies named Niya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 973 US girls were named Niya; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 129. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,349 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Niya ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,912 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. 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 Neha (4,351 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 Niya in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 11 | #1,912 | #1,578 |
| New York | 6 | #2,009 | — |
| Texas | 5 | #3,665 | #1,893 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | #2,807 | — | — |
| 2024 | 76 | #2,404 | — | — |
| 2023 | 90 | #2,136 | — | — |
| 2022 | 93 | #2,081 | — | — |
| 2021 | 108 | #1,857 | — | — |
| 2020 | 129 | #1,621 | — | — |
| 2019 | 86 | #2,164 | — | — |
| 2018 | 116 | #1,771 | — | — |
| 2017 | 101 | #1,974 | — | — |
| 2016 | 113 | #1,837 | — | — |
| 2015 | 122 | #1,726 | — | — |
| 2014 | 113 | #1,816 | — | — |
| 2013 | 94 | #2,061 | — | — |
| 2012 | 122 | #1,712 | — | — |
| 2011 | 89 | #2,153 | — | — |
| 2010 | 103 | #1,956 | — | — |
| 2009 | 99 | #2,071 | — | — |
| 2008 | 116 | #1,850 | — | — |
| 2007 | 144 | #1,578 | — | — |
| 2006 | 160 | #1,422 | — | — |
| 2005 | 166 | #1,327 | — | — |
| 2004 | 185 | #1,212 | — | — |
| 2003 | 195 | #1,130 | — | — |
| 2002 | 210 | #1,032 | — | — |
| 2001 | 211 | #1,022 | — | — |
| 2000 | 198 | #1,050 | — | — |
| 1999 | 178 | #1,119 | — | — |
| 1998 | 115 | #1,490 | — | — |
| 1997 | 110 | #1,495 | — | — |
| 1996 | 109 | #1,496 | — | — |
| 1995 | 61 | #2,209 | — | — |
| 1994 | 76 | #1,886 | — | — |
| 1993 | 54 | #2,374 | — | — |
| 1992 | 70 | #1,978 | — | — |
| 1991 | 60 | #2,208 | — | — |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,129 | — | — |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,086 | — | — |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,130 | — | — |
| 1987 | 23 | #3,829 | — | — |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,145 | — | — |
| 1985 | 34 | #2,783 | — | — |
| 1984 | 41 | #2,366 | — | — |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,635 | — | — |
| 1982 | 35 | #2,681 | — | — |
| 1981 | 75 | #1,575 | — | — |
| 1980 | 63 | #1,756 | — | — |
| 1979 | 47 | #2,139 | — | — |
| 1978 | 53 | #1,883 | — | — |
| 1977 | 46 | #2,084 | — | — |
| 1976 | 97 | #1,178 | — | — |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,435 | — | — |
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).