Nabihah — girls' name
37 babies named Nabihah in U.S. Social Security records since 1986, with the highest year being 1997. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
38% of everyone ever named Nabihah was born in this single decade.
8 babies were named Nabihah in 1997 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Nabihah
The Social Security Administration has registered 37 babies named Nabihah between 1986 and 2015, spanning 30 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nabihah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1997, when 8 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Nabihah performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 14 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Nabihah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Nabihah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 37 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Nabihah at a glance
Last recorded 2015Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Nabihah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–1986
- Peak year (1997)
- 8
- Annual births at peak — across 30 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2015.
37 total births across 30 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1997 with 8 births in a single year.
Nabihah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 14 births that decade — 38% of Nabihah's all-time total
Nabihah decade highlights
- Peak decade 14 births
- Runner-up 11 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Nabihah's strongest decade
14 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 38% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1986–2015 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.