Naia
Naia was given to 133 girls in 2025, #1,585 among girls’ names; 2,228 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,210 Americans named Naia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Naia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Naia mean?
Wiktionary, Danish section
Naia is “a female given name, a less common spelling of Naja”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Danish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Naia?
#1,585 among girls’ names, 2025
Naia rose from #2,083 in 2015 to #1,585 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 52.7 to 82.7 per million.
143 babies in 2023, the peak
Naia peaked in 2023, when 143 girls were given it, #1,509 among girls’ names. The 133 births of 2025 are 93% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 133 | #1,585 | 82.7 |
| 2024 | 109 | #1,847 | 67.3 |
| 2023 | 143 | #1,509 | 89.1 |
| 2022 | 136 | #1,567 | 82.9 |
| 2021 | 93 | #2,065 | 56.7 |
| 2020 | 119 | #1,715 | 73.6 |
| 2019 | 107 | #1,886 | 63.8 |
| 2018 | 98 | #2,008 | 57.6 |
| 2017 | 80 | #2,313 | 46.3 |
| 2016 | 86 | #2,243 | 48.5 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 94 | #2,083 | 52.7 |
| 2014 | 83 | #2,265 | 46.5 |
| 2013 | 58 | #2,928 | 33.1 |
| 2012 | 95 | #2,042 | 53.9 |
| 2011 | 64 | #2,754 | 36.4 |
| 2010 | 60 | #2,889 | 33.8 |
| 2009 | 66 | #2,744 | 35.9 |
| 2008 | 57 | #3,047 | 30.1 |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,955 | 31.7 |
| 2006 | 61 | #2,877 | 32.1 |
| 2005 | 52 | #3,072 | 28.1 |
| 2004 | 67 | #2,516 | 36.5 |
| 2003 | 93 | #1,964 | 50.9 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,924 | 28.4 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,906 | 27.8 |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,782 | 18.7 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,581 | 10.7 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,515 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,161 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,401 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,354 | 4.0 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,780 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,167 | 2.9 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,683 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Naia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Naia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Naia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Naia, and how old are they?
2,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,228 Americans ever recorded as Naia. The median Naia alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,520 people named Naia (1,491 women and girls, 29 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,514 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 28 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 851 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,330 |
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 Naia born?
The states with the most babies named Naia are California, Florida and New York, with 62% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 28 | #993 | 1.6× |
| Florida | 17 | #945 | 1.1× |
| New York | 11 | #1,285 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 8 | #2,565 | 0.5× |
| Washington | 8 | #789 | 0.6× |
| Hawaii | 7 | #129 | 22.1× |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #733 | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,300 | 0.4× |
Where Naia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Naia is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1982 it was given 22.1 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 Naia 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,678 babies since 1880, Naia is the third most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 133 of their 611 babies (22%), the second 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 Naia
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 Naia and names like it
- Compare Naia and NayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sNaia peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Naia since 1910.
- Danish namesWiktionary’s origin for Naia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Naia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Naia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.