Nijah
- Last seen for girls in 2024 at #9,556
- Last seen for boys in 2023 at #12,239
- Given to girls 86.9% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 75 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,219since 1977
Nijah over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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 | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | — | ||
| 2024 | #9,556 | 10 | — | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 | #10,863 | 6 |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 | — | |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | — | |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | #12,145 | 5 |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 | — | |
| 2017 | #7,840 | 14 | #7,546 | 10 |
| 2016 | #9,411 | 11 | #7,605 | 10 |
| 2015 | #7,613 | 15 | #10,644 | 6 |
| 2014 | #10,129 | 10 | #6,307 | 13 |
| 2013 | #9,612 | 11 | #8,789 | 8 |
| 2012 | #9,109 | 12 | #7,050 | 11 |
| 2011 | #5,063 | 27 | — | |
| 2010 | #4,397 | 33 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | #3,088 | 55 | #7,236 | 11 |
| 2008 | #4,360 | 35 | #9,019 | 8 |
| 2007 | #4,808 | 30 | — | |
| 2006 | #4,685 | 30 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #2,969 | 54 | #8,299 | 8 |
| 2004 | #2,556 | 65 | #8,927 | 7 |
| 2003 | #2,260 | 75 | #9,581 | 6 |
| 2002 | #2,819 | 53 | #7,055 | 9 |
| 2001 | #2,461 | 63 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | #2,213 | 71 | #7,416 | 8 |
| 1999 | #2,368 | 62 | #6,042 | 10 |
| 1998 | #1,992 | 75 | #8,479 | 6 |
| 1997 | #2,820 | 43 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #2,476 | 51 | #7,136 | 7 |
| 1995 | #2,977 | 39 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #2,988 | 39 | — | |
| 1993 | #3,681 | 29 | — | |
| 1992 | #4,849 | 20 | — | |
| 1991 | #5,181 | 18 | — | |
| 1990 | #4,868 | 19 | — | |
| 1989 | #4,522 | 20 | — | |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 | — | |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 | — | |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | — | |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | — | |
| 1984 | #6,810 | 9 | — | |
| 1983 | #5,824 | 11 | — | |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 | — | |
| 1981 | #7,409 | 8 | — | |
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| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | — | |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 | — | |
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First appearance
1977
The first year at least five girls were named Nijah! It came in at #6,340, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1978–1980, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Nijah is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Nijah in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Nijah
Momentum · girls
Faded out
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
Rise & fade · girls
21 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 1998 at #1,992 (75 births)
- Births halved by 2006, 8 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 23,559
- Highest: 1 in 23,559 girls born in 1998 were named Nijah (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 162,019 girls born in 2024 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 43.6% of all girls named Nijah (531) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2015
- Mostly boys until 2014, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 14 | #6,340 (1977) | #8,045 |
| 1980s | 89 | #4,522 (1989) | #7,289 |
| 1990s | 395 | #1,992 (1998) | #3,420 |
| 2000s | 531 | #2,213 (2000) | #3,222 |
| 2010s | 149 | #4,397 (2010) | #8,596 |
| 2020s | 41 | #8,024 (2021) | #11,819 |
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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