Nariah
Nariah was given to 130 girls in 2025, #1,607 among girls’ names; 3,521 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,490 Americans named Nariah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nariah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nariah?
#1,607 among girls’ names, 2025
Nariah fell from #1,492 in 2015 to #1,607 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 86.3 to 80.9 per million.
222 babies in 2009, the peak
Nariah peaked in 2009, when 222 girls were given it, #1,145 among girls’ names. The 130 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 130 | #1,607 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 128 | #1,629 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 109 | #1,843 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 115 | #1,790 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 131 | #1,606 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 83 | #2,187 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 114 | #1,797 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 115 | #1,783 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 146 | #1,522 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 152 | #1,503 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 154 | #1,492 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 145 | #1,517 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 164 | #1,402 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 138 | #1,580 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 165 | #1,389 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 196 | #1,233 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 222 | #1,145 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 183 | #1,344 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 134 | #1,661 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 140 | #1,558 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 129 | #1,586 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 96 | #1,953 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 161 | #1,293 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 66 | #2,437 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 43 | #3,236 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,923 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 31 | #3,857 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,332 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,770 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,216 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,310 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,580 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,029 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,839 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,398 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nariah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nariah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nariah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nariah, and how old are they?
3,490 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,521 Americans ever recorded as Nariah. The median Nariah alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 2,144 people named Nariah (2,129 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,825 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 58 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,760 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,680 |
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 Nariah born?
The states with the most babies named Nariah are Texas, Florida and California, with 44% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 15 | #1,599 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 14 | #1,098 | 1.2× |
| California | 9 | #2,229 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,171 | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,197 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,394 | 1.2× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,142 | 0.8× |
| Alabama | 6 | #797 | 0.4× |
| New York | 5 | #2,320 | 0.8× |
| South Carolina | 5 | #881 | 1.1× |
Where Nariah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nariah is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1991 it was given 1.3 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 Nariah 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 8,685 babies since 1880, Nariah is the most given (41% of them). In 2025 it was given to 130 of their 443 babies (29%), again the most given.
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 Nariah
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 Nariah and names like it
- Compare Nariah and NariyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNariah peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nariah since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Nariah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nariah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.