Niah
#5,238 for girls in 2025, 24 births
- Peak · girls
- 2013 · 77 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,741since 1982
Niah over time
Rank among girls' names. Niah has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,238 | 24 |
| 2024 | #3,081 | 52 |
| 2023 | #3,140 | 52 |
| 2022 | #3,416 | 46 |
| 2021 | #3,112 | 52 |
| 2020 | #2,779 | 59 |
| 2019 | #2,962 | 55 |
| 2018 | #2,584 | 67 |
| 2017 | #2,401 | 75 |
| 2016 | #2,463 | 74 |
| 2015 | #2,555 | 70 |
| 2014 | #2,582 | 68 |
| 2013 | #2,364 | 77 |
| 2012 | #3,169 | 52 |
| 2011 | #3,173 | 52 |
| 2010 | #2,726 | 65 |
| 2009 | #2,705 | 67 |
| 2008 | #2,995 | 58 |
| 2007 | #2,750 | 66 |
| 2006 | #2,701 | 66 |
| 2005 | #3,126 | 50 |
| 2004 | #2,998 | 52 |
| 2003 | #2,737 | 57 |
| 2002 | #2,642 | 58 |
| 2001 | #2,540 | 60 |
| 2000 | #3,070 | 45 |
| 1999 | #3,188 | 40 |
| 1998 | #3,222 | 38 |
| 1997 | #3,815 | 29 |
| 1996 | #4,883 | 20 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 |
| 1994 | #5,445 | 17 |
| 1993 | #7,038 | 12 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 |
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| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 |
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| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Niah! It came in at #10,517, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1985, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Niah is popular in 2004
No state had 5 or more girls named Niah in 2004, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Niah
- 2,157 spots since 2024 (#3,081 → #5,238)
- 2,459 spots since 2020 (#2,779 → #5,238)
- 2,683 spots since 2015 (#2,555 → #5,238)
- Debuted 1982
- Peaked 2013 at #2,364 (77 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 22,789 girls born in 2013 were named Niah (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 66,969 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 37.6% of all girls named Niah (655) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 34 | #8,523 (1986) | #10,148 |
| 1990s | 188 | #3,188 (1999) | #6,682 |
| 2000s | 579 | #2,540 (2001) | #2,826 |
| 2010s | 655 | #2,364 (2013) | #2,698 |
| 2020s | 285 | #2,779 (2020) | #3,461 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Niah in 2004
Top girls' names in 2004
More about 2004
girls
1,836,250 girls got a published name in 2004; 1 in 35,313 of them was named Niah, which outranked 84.1% of the 18,835 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,965Xochilt53
- #2,965Yelena53
- #2,965Yuna53
- #2,998Niah52
- #2,998Aleyah52
- #2,998Annah52
- #2,998Ariadne52
- #3,033Aaliya51
- #3,033Adaline51
- #3,033Alexzandra51
Tied with 34 names at #2,998; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.