Nia
Nia was given to 403 girls in 2025, #702 among girls’ names; 25,432 Americans have been recorded with it since 1951 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 25,100 Americans named Nia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 12 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nia mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Nia is “a female given name.”
Short for Antonia.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nia?
#702 among girls’ names, 2025
Nia fell from #442 in 2015 to #702 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.40 to 0.25 per 1,000.
1,033 babies in 2000, the peak
Nia peaked in 2000, when 1,033 girls were given it, #307 among girls’ names. The 403 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 403 | #702 | 0.25 |
| 2024 | 431 | #672 | 0.27 |
| 2023 | 460 | #637 | 0.29 |
| 2022 | 497 | #603 | 0.30 |
| 2021 | 523 | #580 | 0.32 |
| 2020 | 618 | #495 | 0.38 |
| 2019 | 629 | #500 | 0.37 |
| 2018 | 659 | #473 | 0.39 |
| 2017 | 632 | #495 | 0.37 |
| 2016 | 736 | #438 | 0.42 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 718 | #442 | 0.40 |
| 2014 | 654 | #481 | 0.37 |
| 2013 | 595 | #506 | 0.34 |
| 2012 | 675 | #464 | 0.38 |
| 2011 | 604 | #492 | 0.34 |
| 2010 | 644 | #470 | 0.36 |
| 2009 | 636 | #483 | 0.35 |
| 2008 | 681 | #466 | 0.36 |
| 2007 | 816 | #401 | 0.42 |
| 2006 | 853 | #381 | 0.45 |
| 2005 | 782 | #402 | 0.42 |
| 2004 | 891 | #356 | 0.49 |
| 2003 | 893 | #346 | 0.49 |
| 2002 | 961 | #320 | 0.53 |
| 2001 | 1,025 | #310 | 0.57 |
| 2000 | 1,033 | #307 | 0.57 |
| 1999 | 797 | #368 | 0.45 |
| 1998 | 891 | #330 | 0.50 |
| 1997 | 717 | #376 | 0.41 |
| 1996 | 565 | #448 | 0.32 |
| 1995 | 495 | #496 | 0.28 |
| 1994 | 449 | #544 | 0.25 |
| 1993 | 466 | #522 | 0.26 |
| 1992 | 306 | #706 | 0.17 |
| 1991 | 368 | #615 | 0.20 |
| 1990 | 229 | #861 | 0.12 |
| 1989 | 143 | #1,153 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 135 | #1,134 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 109 | #1,289 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 169 | #942 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 153 | #1,001 | 0.09 |
| 1984 | 76 | #1,509 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 102 | #1,244 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 99 | #1,288 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 95 | #1,324 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 117 | #1,159 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 65 | #1,703 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 80 | #1,446 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 81 | #1,396 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 93 | #1,221 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 104 | #1,123 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 223 | #674 | 0.15 |
| 1973 | 44 | #1,903 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 48 | #1,798 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 31 | #2,457 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,397 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 20 | #3,076 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,560 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,987 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 20 | #2,816 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,679 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,267 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,881 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 7 | #5,010 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,252 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nia has been given almost only to girls: 10 boys in 65 years of records.
Girls and boys named Nia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nia, and how old are they?
25,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 25,432 Americans ever recorded as Nia. The median Nia alive today is 21 years old; half are between 12 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 21,920 people named Nia (21,814 women and girls, 106 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 22,399 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 19 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 926 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,880 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 12,800 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,510 |
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 Nia born?
The states with the most babies named Nia are California, Texas and New York, with 36% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 54 | #599 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 47 | #660 | 0.7× |
| New York | 29 | #582 | 1.8× |
| Florida | 27 | #648 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 19 | #574 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 18 | #443 | 1.5× |
| Massachusetts | 16 | #368 | 0.8× |
| Washington | 16 | #442 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 15 | #676 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 14 | #699 | 1.3× |
Where Nia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nia is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1951 it was given 3.4 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 Nia 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 181,544 babies since 1880, Nia is the second most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 403 of their 1,639 babies (25%), 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 Nia
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 Nia and names like it
- Compare Nia and NinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNia peaked in 2000.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nia since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Nia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.