Nigeria — girls' name

What the Data Says About Nigeria

The Social Security Administration has registered 805 babies named Nigeria between 1975 and 2022, spanning 48 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nigeria currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 58 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nigeria performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 308 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Nigeria shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 43 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Nigeria in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nigeria 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 805 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.