Nadira
Nadira was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,390 among girls’ names; 1,035 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,020 Americans named Nadira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 16 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nadira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nadira?
#7,390 among girls’ names, 2025
Nadira rose from #10,645 in 2015 to #7,390 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.6 to 9.3 per million.
45 babies in 2000, the peak
Nadira peaked in 2000, when 45 girls were given it, #3,103 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,390 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,484 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,355 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,919 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,332 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,845 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,925 | 12.5 |
| 2018 | 14 | #8,035 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,456 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,926 | 12.4 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,645 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,364 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,780 | 13.1 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,505 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,674 | 13.6 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,825 | 16.9 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,839 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,534 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,481 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,652 | 16.3 |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,700 | 21.6 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,665 | 15.8 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,490 | 15.9 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,467 | 15.6 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,405 | 15.6 |
| 2000 | 45 | #3,103 | 24.8 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,694 | 18.6 |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,612 | 18.7 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,331 | 14.4 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,536 | 13.1 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,177 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,613 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,364 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,201 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,933 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,731 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,740 | 8.1 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,541 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,603 | 10.4 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,231 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,788 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,653 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,052 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,123 | 11.2 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,941 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,685 | 13.3 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,542 | 10.0 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,433 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,325 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,811 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,824 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,628 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,468 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,781 | 5.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nadira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nadira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nadira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nadira, and how old are they?
1,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,035 Americans ever recorded as Nadira. The median Nadira alive today is 24 years old; half are between 16 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 1,781 people named Nadira (1,775 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 938 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 102 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 241 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 466 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 207 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Nadira born?
The states with the most babies named Nadira are New York, Pennsylvania and Minnesota, with 91% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 120 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 86 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Minnesota | 11 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 11 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| California | 6 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| Virginia | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Nadira is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nadira is most over-represented in New York: since 1972 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Nadira with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,219 babies since 1880, Nadira is the most given (47% of them).
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 Nadira
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 Nadira and names like it
- Compare Nadira and NadirahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNadira peaked in 2000.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nadira since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Nadira.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nadira alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.