Meaning not yet researched.
Niyah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 49 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,418 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,418 in 2001; #3,237 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Niyah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,237 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #1,418.
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Niyah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 49 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,418 in 2001 · most girls in one year: 136 (2003).
In 2025, 49 US girls were named Niyah, making it the 3,237th most common girls’ name of the year, down 832 places from #2,405 in 2024. That is 27 fewer than the 76 girls named Niyah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,418, reached in 2001. The most girls given the name in a single year was 136, in 2003. For comparison, it was #1,904 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Niyah in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1981 with 7 babies. In all, 3,001 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,140 babies named Niyah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 867 US girls were named Niyah; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 117. In 2025 that was about 1 in 32,801 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
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 Niya (4,790 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 Niyah 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 | 49 | #3,237 | — | — |
| 2024 | 76 | #2,405 | — | — |
| 2023 | 72 | #2,487 | — | — |
| 2022 | 80 | #2,337 | — | — |
| 2021 | 84 | #2,227 | — | — |
| 2020 | 100 | #1,919 | — | — |
| 2019 | 117 | #1,761 | — | — |
| 2018 | 98 | #2,010 | — | — |
| 2017 | 100 | #1,985 | — | — |
| 2016 | 91 | #2,143 | — | — |
| 2015 | 107 | #1,904 | — | — |
| 2014 | 122 | #1,722 | — | — |
| 2013 | 108 | #1,874 | — | — |
| 2012 | 117 | #1,772 | — | — |
| 2011 | 114 | #1,784 | — | — |
| 2010 | 91 | #2,161 | — | — |
| 2009 | 98 | #2,086 | — | — |
| 2008 | 101 | #2,047 | — | — |
| 2007 | 106 | #1,952 | — | — |
| 2006 | 110 | #1,858 | — | — |
| 2005 | 117 | #1,701 | — | — |
| 2004 | 119 | #1,637 | — | — |
| 2003 | 136 | #1,452 | — | — |
| 2002 | 131 | #1,465 | — | — |
| 2001 | 134 | #1,418 | — | — |
| 2000 | 88 | #1,934 | — | — |
| 1999 | 56 | #2,558 | — | — |
| 1998 | 77 | #1,974 | — | — |
| 1997 | 45 | #2,760 | — | — |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,211 | — | — |
| 1995 | 32 | #3,471 | — | — |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,587 | — | — |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,413 | — | — |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,217 | — | — |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,858 | — | — |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,445 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,974 | — | — |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,749 | — | — |
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).