Nijah — #9713 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Nijah

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,219 babies named Nijah between 1977 and 2024, spanning 48 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nijah currently holds the #9713 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 75 babies received it in a single year. Nijah is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 184 additional births since 1995.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nijah performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 531 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Nijah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 38 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Nijah in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nijah 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 1,219 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.