Naimah
Naimah was given to 19 girls in 2025, #6,262 among girls’ names; 1,660 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,630 Americans named Naimah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 15 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Naimah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Naimah?
#6,262 among girls’ names, 2025
Naimah fell from #5,252 in 2015 to #6,262 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.6 to 11.8 per million.
77 babies in 2011, the peak
Naimah peaked in 2011, when 77 girls were given it, #2,410 among girls’ names. The 19 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,262 | 11.8 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,848 | 10.5 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,889 | 13.1 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,583 | 14.0 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,889 | 10.4 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,969 | 16.1 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,862 | 16.7 |
| 2018 | 48 | #3,328 | 28.2 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,144 | 15.1 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,810 | 16.4 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #5,252 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,978 | 21.3 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,307 | 19.4 |
| 2012 | 47 | #3,449 | 26.7 |
| 2011 | 77 | #2,410 | 43.8 |
| 2010 | 58 | #2,965 | 32.6 |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,920 | 32.7 |
| 2008 | 72 | #2,604 | 38.1 |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,956 | 31.7 |
| 2006 | 47 | #3,454 | 24.7 |
| 2005 | 74 | #2,395 | 40.0 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,163 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,491 | 15.9 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,468 | 15.6 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,787 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,439 | 11.6 |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,480 | 20.3 |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,709 | 18.1 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,349 | 10.9 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,144 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,943 | 15.4 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,615 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,335 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,747 | 15.7 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,474 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,808 | 10.5 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,465 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,228 | 9.0 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,233 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 28 | #3,242 | 16.3 |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,081 | 11.6 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,294 | 15.4 |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,119 | 16.2 |
| 1982 | 28 | #3,144 | 16.5 |
| 1981 | 36 | #2,600 | 21.6 |
| 1980 | 41 | #2,377 | 24.7 |
| 1979 | 48 | #2,103 | 29.9 |
| 1978 | 46 | #2,077 | 30.0 |
| 1977 | 51 | #1,941 | 33.3 |
| 1976 | 42 | #2,088 | 28.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Naimah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Naimah 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 Naimah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Naimah, and how old are they?
1,630 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,660 Americans ever recorded as Naimah. The median Naimah alive today is 21 years old; half are between 15 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 1,302 people named Naimah (1,296 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,520 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 | 217 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 359 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 704 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 350 |
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 Naimah born?
The states with the most babies named Naimah are New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, with 65% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 166 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| New Jersey | 114 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 101 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| California | 68 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 45 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 28 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 23 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 19 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| District of Columbia | 6 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Maryland | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Naimah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Naimah is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1976 it was given 2.4 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 Naimah 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 10,443 babies since 1880, Naimah is the third most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 140 babies (14%), 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 Naimah
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 Naimah and names like it
- Compare Naimah and NaimaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sNaimah peaked in 2011.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Naimah since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Naimah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Naimah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.