Nia — #672 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Nia

The Social Security Administration has registered 25,013 babies named Nia between 1951 and 2024, spanning 74 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nia currently holds the #672 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 1,033 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nia performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 8,571 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Nia shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 2,973 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Nia in 43 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nia in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 25,013 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.