Niana
Niana was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,682 among girls’ names; 294 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Niana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Niana?
#10,682 among girls’ names, 2025
Niana rose from #18,381 in 2015 to #10,682 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 5.6 per million.
24 babies in 2019, the peak
Niana peaked in 2019, when 24 girls were given it, #5,411 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,682 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,087 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,672 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,900 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,102 | 12.2 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,258 | 11.8 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,411 | 14.3 |
| 2018 | 17 | #7,025 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,461 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,570 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #18,381 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,388 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,209 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,033 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,229 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,552 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,793 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,895 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,409 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,142 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,090 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,298 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,071 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,158 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,201 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,871 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,723 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,066 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,320 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Niana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Niana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Niana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Niana, and how old are they?
An estimated 292 Americans named Niana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 243 people named Niana (241 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 224 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 167,539 babies since 1880, Niana is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 1,469 babies (<1%), the seventh most given that year.
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 Niana
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 Niana and names like it
- Compare Niana and NinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Niana.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Niana alive today were born 2013-2025.
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