Niah
Niah was given to 24 girls in 2025, #5,352 among girls’ names; 1,741 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,730 Americans named Niah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Niah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Niah?
#5,352 among girls’ names, 2025
Niah fell from #2,581 in 2015 to #5,352 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 39.2 to 14.9 per million.
77 babies in 2013, the peak
Niah peaked in 2013, when 77 girls were given it, #2,377 among girls’ names. The 24 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,352 | 14.9 |
| 2024 | 52 | #3,107 | 32.1 |
| 2023 | 52 | #3,171 | 32.4 |
| 2022 | 46 | #3,457 | 28.0 |
| 2021 | 52 | #3,146 | 31.7 |
| 2020 | 59 | #2,812 | 36.5 |
| 2019 | 55 | #2,984 | 32.8 |
| 2018 | 67 | #2,605 | 39.4 |
| 2017 | 75 | #2,420 | 43.4 |
| 2016 | 74 | #2,472 | 41.8 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 70 | #2,581 | 39.2 |
| 2014 | 68 | #2,606 | 38.1 |
| 2013 | 77 | #2,377 | 43.9 |
| 2012 | 52 | #3,198 | 29.5 |
| 2011 | 52 | #3,209 | 29.6 |
| 2010 | 65 | #2,747 | 36.6 |
| 2009 | 67 | #2,723 | 36.5 |
| 2008 | 58 | #3,011 | 30.7 |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,777 | 34.3 |
| 2006 | 66 | #2,719 | 34.7 |
| 2005 | 50 | #3,154 | 27.1 |
| 2004 | 52 | #3,027 | 28.3 |
| 2003 | 57 | #2,759 | 31.2 |
| 2002 | 58 | #2,662 | 32.3 |
| 2001 | 60 | #2,556 | 33.3 |
| 2000 | 45 | #3,104 | 24.8 |
| 1999 | 40 | #3,230 | 22.6 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,273 | 21.5 |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,870 | 16.7 |
| 1996 | 20 | #5,002 | 11.4 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,536 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,622 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,340 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,818 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,119 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,875 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,837 | 2.7 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,628 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,253 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,960 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,834 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,717 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Niah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Niah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Niah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Niah, and how old are they?
1,730 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,741 Americans ever recorded as Niah. The median Niah alive today is 15 years old; half are between 9 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 1,496 people named Niah (1,409 women and girls, 87 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,459 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 112 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 846 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 766 |
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 Niah born?
The states with the most babies named Niah are California, Texas and Florida, with 79% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 204 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 104 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 84 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 77 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Jersey | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Niah 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 181,149 babies since 1880, Niah is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 1,625 babies (1.5%), again the seventh 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 Niah
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 Niah and names like it
- Compare Niah and NinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sNiah peaked in 2013.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Niah since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Niah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Niah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.