Nadiyah
Nadiyah was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,274 among girls’ names; 1,077 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,060 Americans named Nadiyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 15 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nadiyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nadiyah?
#9,274 among girls’ names, 2025
Nadiyah fell from #5,078 in 2015 to #9,274 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.1 to 6.8 per million.
43 babies in 2000, the peak
Nadiyah peaked in 2000, when 43 girls were given it, #3,197 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,274 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,370 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,823 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,369 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,529 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,044 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,115 | 11.9 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,171 | 11.8 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,766 | 12.7 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,134 | 9.6 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #5,078 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,125 | 15.1 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,184 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,362 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,491 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,088 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,719 | 23.4 |
| 2008 | 40 | #3,984 | 21.2 |
| 2007 | 41 | #3,895 | 21.3 |
| 2006 | 28 | #5,054 | 14.7 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,727 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,495 | 12.5 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,626 | 15.3 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,348 | 16.1 |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,526 | 15.0 |
| 2000 | 43 | #3,197 | 23.7 |
| 1999 | 29 | #4,044 | 16.3 |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,203 | 15.3 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,952 | 12.1 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,452 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,452 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,614 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,917 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,473 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,100 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,683 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,287 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,940 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,462 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,948 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 15 | #5,009 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,615 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,769 | 12.6 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,655 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,665 | 9.6 |
| 1980 | 28 | #3,110 | 16.9 |
| 1979 | 31 | #2,836 | 19.3 |
| 1978 | 27 | #2,993 | 17.6 |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,968 | 17.6 |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,370 | 14.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nadiyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nadiyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nadiyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nadiyah, and how old are they?
1,060 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,077 Americans ever recorded as Nadiyah. The median Nadiyah alive today is 23 years old; half are between 15 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 798 people named Nadiyah (795 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 993 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 128 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 222 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 484 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 225 |
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).
How common is the spelling Nadiyah?
Nadiyah is a less common spelling of Nadia: SSA has recorded 1,077 Nadiyah and 46,618 Nadia since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 52,476 babies since 1880, Nadiyah is the fourth most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 599 babies (1.8%), again the fourth most given.
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 Nadiyah
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 Nadiyah and names like it
- Compare Nadiyah and NadiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNadiyah peaked in 2000.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nadiyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Nadiyah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nadiyah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.