Nija — girls' name

What the Data Says About Nija

The Social Security Administration has registered 815 babies named Nija between 1973 and 2014, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nija currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 1999, when 58 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nija performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 345 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Nija shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 50 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Nija in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nija 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 815 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.