Niasha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Niasha

The Social Security Administration has registered 180 babies named Niasha between 1978 and 2008, spanning 31 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Niasha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2008. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 17 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Niasha performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 88 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Niasha shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. 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 Niasha in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Niasha 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 180 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.