Niger — unisex name

What the Data Says About Niger

The Social Security Administration has registered 25 babies named Niger between 1976 and 1984, spanning 9 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Niger currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1984. The name reached its historical peak in 1976, when 9 babies received it in a single year. Niger is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 11 additional births since 1994.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Niger performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 18 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Niger shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Niger 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 25 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.