Niaya — girls' name
214 babies named Niaya in U.S. Social Security records since 1982, with the highest year being 1998. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
47% of everyone ever named Niaya was born in this single decade.
22 babies were named Niaya in 1998 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Niaya
The Social Security Administration has registered 214 babies named Niaya between 1982 and 2014, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Niaya currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 22 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Niaya performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 101 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Niaya shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Niaya in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Niaya 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 214 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.
Niaya at a glance
Last recorded 2014Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Niaya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2014–1982
- Peak year (1998)
- 22
- Annual births at peak — across 33 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2014.
214 total births across 33 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1998 with 22 births in a single year.
Niaya by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 101 births that decade — 47% of Niaya's all-time total
Niaya decade highlights
- Peak decade 101 births
- Runner-up 89 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Niaya's strongest decade
101 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 47% of all-time use.
Niaya by state
Where Niaya concentrates geographically — total births since 1982
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Georgia | | 5 | 2.3% |
5 of 214 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Georgia 2.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Georgia accounts for 2.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1982–2014 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.