Niaja — girls' name

What the Data Says About Niaja

The Social Security Administration has registered 183 babies named Niaja between 1982 and 2011, spanning 30 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Niaja currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2011. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 18 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Niaja performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 85 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Niaja shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Niaja in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Niaja 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 183 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.