Niara
Niara was given to 39 girls in 2025, #3,819 among girls’ names; 1,196 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,180 Americans named Niara and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 8 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Niara by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Niara?
#3,819 among girls’ names, 2025
Niara rose from #4,824 in 2015 to #3,819 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 16.2 to 24.3 per million.
50 babies in 2022, the peak
Niara peaked in 2022, when 50 girls were given it, #3,262 among girls’ names. The 39 births of 2025 are 78% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39 | #3,819 | 24.3 |
| 2024 | 41 | #3,737 | 25.3 |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,751 | 25.6 |
| 2022 | 50 | #3,262 | 30.5 |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,656 | 25.6 |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,418 | 19.2 |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,240 | 20.3 |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,412 | 14.1 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,894 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,705 | 16.9 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #4,824 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,991 | 15.7 |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,725 | 17.1 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,573 | 18.2 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,329 | 19.3 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,089 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 46 | #3,551 | 25.0 |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,523 | 18.0 |
| 2007 | 41 | #3,899 | 21.3 |
| 2006 | 49 | #3,355 | 25.8 |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,704 | 21.6 |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,352 | 17.4 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,494 | 15.9 |
| 2002 | 38 | #3,568 | 21.1 |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,680 | 20.0 |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,047 | 17.1 |
| 1999 | 30 | #3,938 | 16.9 |
| 1998 | 46 | #2,875 | 26.0 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,333 | 14.4 |
| 1996 | 35 | #3,341 | 20.0 |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,956 | 22.7 |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,861 | 15.7 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,924 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,207 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,261 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,000 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,817 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,230 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Niara a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Niara has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Niara: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Niara, and how old are they?
1,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,196 Americans ever recorded as Niara. The median Niara alive today is 17 years old; half are between 8 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 838 people named Niara (838 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 951 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 166 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 574 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 444 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,248 babies since 1880, Niara is the second most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 39 of their 459 babies (8.5%), the fourth 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 Niara
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 Niara and names like it
- Compare Niara and NyraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sNiara peaked in 2022.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Niara since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Niara.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Niara alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.