Girls' name · since 1993
Nahja
Nahja has 58 recorded births since 1993 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1999 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #33,319 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 58
- born since 1993
- 1990s
- peak decade
58 girls have been named Nahja since 1993, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Nahja has 58 recorded births among girls since 1993, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1993 to 2002.
- #33,319 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 58 born since 1993
- 1990s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Nahja ranks #33,319 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 58 born since 1993, peaking in the 1990s.
- #33,319 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 58
- born since 1993
- 1990s
- peak decade
Nahja's 58 recorded births place it above 53.85% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Nahja's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Nahja's full recorded timeline at 1997, 66% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 34% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 1994, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1999 peak of 13 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Nahja popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1993–2002
- Peak year (1999)
- 13
- Annual births at peak, across 10 years of records
Nahja by decade
1990s is the heaviest window (52 births, 90% of the file).
1990s was Nahja's strongest decade.
52 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 90% of all-time use.
Nahja births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s
1990s
52 births
- 2000s 6
2000s
6 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 52 births (90% of all-time use).
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- Nahja's decade-level peak was the 1990s (52 total births); usage has since declined to 6 in the 2000s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Nahja: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1999)
Similar record span (~9 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1993–2002 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Nahja draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.