Nadiah
Nadiah was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,392 among girls’ names; 527 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nadiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nadiah?
#14,392 among girls’ names, 2025
Nadiah fell from #11,565 in 2015 to #14,392 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.0 to 3.7 per million.
30 babies in 2007, the peak
Nadiah peaked in 2007, when 30 girls were given it, #4,905 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,392 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,735 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,414 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,467 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,931 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,255 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,992 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,640 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,885 | 6.2 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,565 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 25 | #5,417 | 14.0 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,436 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,796 | 17.0 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,673 | 13.6 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,908 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,491 | 14.2 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,998 | 8.5 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,905 | 15.6 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,182 | 14.2 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,796 | 15.2 |
| 2004 | 17 | #7,002 | 9.3 |
| 2003 | 25 | #5,048 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,943 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,210 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,258 | 12.1 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,391 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,851 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,489 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,326 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,303 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,895 | 3.4 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,143 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,083 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,835 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,182 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,587 | 2.9 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,035 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,940 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nadiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nadiah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nadiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nadiah, and how old are they?
An estimated 521 Americans named Nadiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 14 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 492 people named Nadiah (490 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 483 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Nadiah?
Nadiah is a less common spelling of Nadia: SSA has recorded 527 Nadiah and 46,618 Nadia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 59,053 babies since 1880, Nadiah is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 631 babies (<1%), the sixth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Nadiah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Nadiah and names like it
- Compare Nadiah and NadiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNadiah peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nadiah since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Nadiah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nadiah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.