Naiya
Naiya was given to 30 girls in 2025, #4,629 among girls’ names; 1,625 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,610 Americans named Naiya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Naiya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Naiya?
#4,629 among girls’ names, 2025
Naiya fell from #2,495 in 2015 to #4,629 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 40.9 to 18.7 per million.
81 babies in 2014, the peak
Naiya peaked in 2014, when 81 girls were given it, #2,302 among girls’ names. The 30 births of 2025 are 37% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,629 | 18.7 |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,737 | 17.9 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,675 | 13.7 |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,754 | 17.7 |
| 2021 | 46 | #3,424 | 28.0 |
| 2020 | 46 | #3,374 | 28.5 |
| 2019 | 43 | #3,595 | 25.6 |
| 2018 | 48 | #3,329 | 28.2 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,749 | 23.7 |
| 2016 | 54 | #3,091 | 30.5 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 73 | #2,495 | 40.9 |
| 2014 | 81 | #2,302 | 45.3 |
| 2013 | 67 | #2,650 | 38.2 |
| 2012 | 60 | #2,892 | 34.1 |
| 2011 | 64 | #2,755 | 36.4 |
| 2010 | 68 | #2,667 | 38.3 |
| 2009 | 62 | #2,843 | 33.7 |
| 2008 | 59 | #2,984 | 31.2 |
| 2007 | 76 | #2,476 | 39.5 |
| 2006 | 79 | #2,387 | 41.6 |
| 2005 | 77 | #2,331 | 41.7 |
| 2004 | 66 | #2,546 | 35.9 |
| 2003 | 54 | #2,864 | 29.6 |
| 2002 | 57 | #2,695 | 31.7 |
| 2001 | 63 | #2,474 | 35.0 |
| 2000 | 47 | #3,003 | 25.9 |
| 1999 | 50 | #2,769 | 28.2 |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,614 | 18.7 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,619 | 13.2 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,411 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,603 | 9.7 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,444 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,247 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,831 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,851 | 2.9 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,943 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Naiya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Naiya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Naiya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Naiya, and how old are they?
1,610 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,625 Americans ever recorded as Naiya. The median Naiya alive today is 17 years old; half are between 11 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 1,354 people named Naiya (1,352 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,423 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 76 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 928 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 605 |
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 Naiya born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,692 | 1.2× |
Where Naiya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Naiya is most over-represented in California: since 1981 it was given 1.2 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 Naiya 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 16,026 babies since 1880, Naiya is the fourth most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 651 babies (4.6%), the sixth 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 Naiya
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 Naiya and names like it
- Compare Naiya and NayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sNaiya peaked in 2014.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Naiya since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Naiya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Naiya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.