Niam
#1,436 for boys in 2025, 125 births
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 169 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,798since 1993
Niam over time
Rank among boys' names. Niam has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,436 | 125 |
| 2024 | #1,438 | 126 |
| 2023 | #1,390 | 133 |
| 2022 | #1,440 | 126 |
| 2021 | #1,168 | 169 |
| 2020 | #1,288 | 141 |
| 2019 | #1,394 | 127 |
| 2018 | #1,324 | 137 |
| 2017 | #1,365 | 130 |
| 2016 | #1,216 | 155 |
| 2015 | #1,374 | 126 |
| 2014 | #1,492 | 108 |
| 2013 | #2,804 | 41 |
| 2012 | #3,530 | 30 |
| 2011 | #4,356 | 22 |
| 2010 | #4,678 | 20 |
| 2009 | #6,436 | 13 |
| 2008 | #7,187 | 11 |
| 2007 | #9,788 | 7 |
| 2006 | #7,998 | 9 |
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| 2004 | #8,927 | 7 |
| 2003 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #9,392 | 6 |
| 2001 | #9,243 | 6 |
| 2000 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #8,704 | 6 |
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| 1993 | #7,638 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Niam! It came in at #7,638, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1994–1998, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Niam is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#503 · 1 in 3,169
- New Jersey#682 · 1 in 4,506
- California#764 · 1 in 5,739
- Virginia#776 · 1 in 4,888
- Maryland#804 · 1 in 4,990
Best ever in a state: #404 in New Jersey, 2018.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Massachusetts | #503 | 9 | 1 in 3,169 |
| New Jersey | #682 | 9 | 1 in 4,506 |
| California | #764 | 33 | 1 in 5,739 |
| Virginia | #776 | 8 | 1 in 4,888 |
| Maryland | #804 | 5 | 1 in 4,990 |
| Illinois | #877 | 9 | 1 in 5,990 |
| Arizona | #909 | 5 | 1 in 6,524 |
| New York | #984 | 12 | 1 in 7,428 |
| Pennsylvania | #995 | 7 | 1 in 7,922 |
| Georgia | #1,056 | 7 | 1 in 7,195 |
| Texas | #1,295 | 14 | 1 in 12,223 |
| Florida | #1,431 | 7 | 1 in 13,251 |
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See more about Niam
- 2 spots since 2024 (#1,438 → #1,436)
- 148 spots since 2020 (#1,288 → #1,436)
- 62 spots since 2015 (#1,374 → #1,436)
- Debuted 1993
- Peaked 2021 at #1,168 (169 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,352 boys born in 2021 were named Niam (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 13,665 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 49.8% of all boys named Niam (896) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 12 | #7,638 (1993) | #8,171 |
| 2000s | 70 | #6,436 (2009) | #8,775 |
| 2010s | 896 | #1,216 (2016) | #2,353 |
| 2020s | 820 | #1,168 (2021) | #1,360 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Niam in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
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1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 10,352 of them was named Niam, which outranked 91.7% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).