Girls' name · since 1998
Nieya
Nieya has 17 recorded births since 1998 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1998 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #48,031 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 17
- born since 1998
- 2000s
- peak decade
Nieya is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 17 have been recorded since 1998.
Nieya has 17 recorded births among girls since 1998, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1998 to 2005.
- #48,031 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 17 born since 1998
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Nieya ranks #48,031 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 17 born since 1998, peaking in the 2000s.
- #48,031 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 17
- born since 1998
- 2000s
- peak decade
Nieya's 17 recorded births place it above 33.2% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Nieya's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Nieya's SSA record in two at 2001 and the more recent half accounts for 65% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 35%, consistent with a name still gaining ground rather than fading. Its calmest year was 2005, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1998 peak of 6, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Nieya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1998–2005
- Peak year (1998)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 8 years of records
Nieya by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (11 births, 65% of the file).
2000s was Nieya's strongest decade.
11 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 65% of all-time use.
Nieya births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s
1990s
6 births
- 2000s
2000s
11 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 11 births (65% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Nieya: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1998)
Similar record span (~7 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1998–2005 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Nieya draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.