Nahid — unisex name
23 babies named Nahid in U.S. Social Security records since 1991, with the highest year being 2005. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
35% of everyone ever named Nahid was born in this single decade.
8 babies were named Nahid in 2005 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Nahid
The Social Security Administration has registered 23 babies named Nahid between 1991 and 2020, spanning 30 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nahid currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 8 babies received it in a single year. Nahid is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 12 additional births since 1997.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Nahid performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 8 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Nahid shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Nahid 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 23 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.
Nahid at a glance
Last recorded 2020Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Nahid popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–1991
- Peak year (2005)
- 8
- Annual births at peak — across 30 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2020.
23 total births across 30 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2005 with 8 births in a single year.
Nahid popularity over time — boys
12 total births recorded since 1997 (Nahid as boys' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The boys' variant of Nahid accounts for 34% of total recorded use across both genders.
Nahid by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 8 births that decade — 35% of Nahid's all-time total
Nahid decade highlights
- Peak decade 8 births
- Runner-up 5 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Nahid's strongest decade
8 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 35% 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, 1991–2020 (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.