Niema
Niema was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,445 among girls’ names; 513 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Niema by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Niema?
#14,445 among girls’ names, 2025
Niema fell from #10,665 in 2015 to #14,445 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.6 to 3.7 per million.
37 babies in 2008, the peak
Niema peaked in 2008, when 37 girls were given it, #4,251 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,445 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,812 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,641 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,123 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,355 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,651 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,537 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,665 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,725 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,211 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | #18,794 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,781 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,572 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,595 | 9.3 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,251 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,539 | 17.2 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,187 | 14.2 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,058 | 9.2 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,756 | 4.4 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,631 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,248 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,228 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,044 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,869 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,794 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,003 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,376 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,504 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,814 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,257 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,981 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,834 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,063 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,702 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,883 | 9.0 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,687 | 13.3 |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,036 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,116 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,360 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,469 | 7.5 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,711 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,637 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,099 | 4.1 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,026 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,905 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Niema a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Niema has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Niema: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Niema, and how old are they?
An estimated 501 Americans named Niema and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 16 and 44. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 454 people named Niema (439 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 487 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below 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 3,476 babies since 1880, Niema is the third most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 76 babies (7.9%), 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 Niema
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 Niema and names like it
- Compare Niema and NiomiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNiema peaked in 2008.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Niema since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Niema.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Niema alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.