Nahia
Nahia was given to 47 girls in 2025, #3,329 among girls’ names; 430 Americans have been recorded with it since 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nahia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nahia?
#3,329 among girls’ names, 2025
Nahia rose from #6,182 in 2015 to #3,329 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 11.8 to 29.2 per million.
58 babies in 2022, the peak
Nahia peaked in 2022, when 58 girls were given it, #2,915 among girls’ names. The 47 births of 2025 are 81% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47 | #3,329 | 29.2 |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,873 | 24.1 |
| 2023 | 46 | #3,459 | 28.7 |
| 2022 | 58 | #2,915 | 35.4 |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,197 | 31.1 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,967 | 16.1 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,734 | 13.1 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,172 | 11.8 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,767 | 12.7 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,344 | 11.3 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #6,182 | 11.8 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,705 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,437 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,558 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,011 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,503 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,324 | 2.7 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,648 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nahia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nahia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 18 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nahia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nahia, and how old are they?
An estimated 427 Americans named Nahia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 9. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 225 people named Nahia (222 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 169 born in the U.S. The Census count is 33% above 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,477 babies since 1880, Nahia is the eighth most given (2.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 47 of their 637 babies (7.4%), the third 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 Nahia
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 Nahia and names like it
- Compare Nahia and NayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sNahia peaked in 2022.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nahia since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Nahia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Nahia alive today were born 2013-2025.
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