Niema
- #13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births
- Peak · girls
- 1980 · 22 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 513since 1970
Niema over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Niema has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | #13,592 | 6 |
| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 |
| 2018 | #9,806 | 10 |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 |
| 2015 | #10,148 | 10 |
| 2014 | #10,129 | 10 |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 |
| 2011 | #6,564 | 19 |
| 2010 | #6,382 | 20 |
| 2009 | #7,341 | 17 |
| 2008 | #4,179 | 37 |
| 2007 | #4,475 | 33 |
| 2006 | #5,086 | 27 |
| 2005 | #6,820 | 17 |
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| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 |
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| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 |
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| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 |
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| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 |
| 1988 | #7,111 | 10 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 |
| 1983 | #4,884 | 14 |
| 1982 | #6,371 | 10 |
| 1981 | #4,746 | 15 |
| 1980 | #3,609 | 22 |
| 1979 | #5,751 | 11 |
| 1978 | #4,931 | 13 |
| 1977 | #4,235 | 16 |
| 1976 | #5,215 | 11 |
| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 |
| 1974 | #4,459 | 13 |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 |
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| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 |
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First appearance
1970
The first year at least five girls were named Niema! It came in at #7,995, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1972, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Niema is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Niema in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 245 spots since 2020 (#13,453 → #13,208)
- 3,060 spots since 2015 (#10,148 → #13,208)
Rise & fade · girls
10 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 1980 at #3,609 (22 births)
- Births halved by 1982, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 51,106
- Highest: 1 in 51,106 girls born in 2008 were named Niema (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,609 in 1980, was only 1 in 75,469 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 27.1% of all girls named Niema (139) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 88 | #4,235 (1977) | #6,065 |
| 1980s | 106 | #3,609 (1980) | #7,030 |
| 1990s | 51 | #7,430 (1991) | #10,735 |
| 2000s | 139 | #4,179 (2008) | #6,487 |
| 2010s | 111 | #6,382 (2010) | #10,356 |
| 2020s | 18 | #13,208 (2025) | #13,418 |
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.
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