Nariyah
Nariyah was given to 130 girls in 2025, #1,608 among girls’ names; 2,127 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,110 Americans named Nariyah 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 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nariyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nariyah?
#1,608 among girls’ names, 2025
Nariyah rose from #2,769 in 2015 to #1,608 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 35.9 to 80.9 per million.
146 babies in 2010, the peak
Nariyah peaked in 2010, when 146 girls were given it, #1,535 among girls’ names. The 130 births of 2025 are 89% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 130 | #1,608 | 80.9 |
| 2024 | 115 | #1,765 | 71.0 |
| 2023 | 109 | #1,844 | 67.9 |
| 2022 | 95 | #2,044 | 57.9 |
| 2021 | 88 | #2,151 | 53.6 |
| 2020 | 98 | #1,955 | 60.6 |
| 2019 | 109 | #1,857 | 64.9 |
| 2018 | 103 | #1,935 | 60.5 |
| 2017 | 86 | #2,215 | 49.8 |
| 2016 | 99 | #2,012 | 55.9 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 64 | #2,769 | 35.9 |
| 2014 | 90 | #2,134 | 50.4 |
| 2013 | 97 | #2,012 | 55.3 |
| 2012 | 112 | #1,818 | 63.6 |
| 2011 | 118 | #1,744 | 67.1 |
| 2010 | 146 | #1,535 | 82.1 |
| 2009 | 144 | #1,569 | 78.4 |
| 2008 | 86 | #2,286 | 45.5 |
| 2007 | 60 | #2,981 | 31.2 |
| 2006 | 49 | #3,353 | 25.8 |
| 2005 | 45 | #3,393 | 24.4 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,666 | 15.8 |
| 2003 | 48 | #3,108 | 26.3 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,208 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nariyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nariyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nariyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nariyah, and how old are they?
2,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,127 Americans ever recorded as Nariyah. The median Nariyah alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 1,006 people named Nariyah (1,006 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,506 born in the U.S. The Census count is 33% 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 Z | 1997-2012 | 837 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,280 |
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 Nariyah born?
The states with the most babies named Nariyah are Texas, Florida and Virginia, with 39% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Virginia is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 12 | #1,877 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,406 | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 9 | #819 | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 9 | #984 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,117 | 1.6× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,172 | 1.4× |
| California | 7 | #2,694 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,344 | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 6 | #750 | 0.3× |
| New York | 5 | #2,321 | 0.5× |
Where Nariyah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nariyah is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 2002 it was given 1.6 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 Nariyah 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 7,188 babies since 1880, Nariyah is the second most given (30% of them). In 2025 it was given to 130 of their 333 babies (39%), again the second 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 Nariyah
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 Nariyah and names like it
- Compare Nariyah and NariahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sNariyah peaked in 2010.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nariyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Nariyah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Nariyah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.