Nira
Nira was given to 27 girls in 2025, #4,954 among girls’ names; 810 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nira?
#4,954 among girls’ names, 2025
Nira rose from #14,093 in 2015 to #4,954 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 16.8 per million.
207 babies in 1933, the peak
Nira peaked in 1933, when 207 babies were given it (201 girls, #463 among girls’ names). The 27 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,954 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,162 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,499 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,201 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,195 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,556 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,243 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,660 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,438 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,741 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #14,093 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,762 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,835 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,971 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,422 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,139 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,180 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,913 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,578 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,284 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,561 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,050 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,443 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,909 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,764 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,494 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,089 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,886 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,530 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,244 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,232 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,071 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,837 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,452 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,195 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,378 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,426 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,739 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,383 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,340 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,936 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,207 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,188 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,564 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,325 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,171 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,768 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,624 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,632 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,569 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,411 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,801 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,698 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 13 | #3,007 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,555 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,093 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,053 | under 0.01 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,741 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 9 | #3,033 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,536 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 38 | #1,161 | 0.04 |
| 1933 | 201 | #463 | 0.20 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,413 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,412 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,813 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,815 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,991 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nira has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 67 years of records.
Girls and boys named Nira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nira, and how old are they?
An estimated 524 Americans named Nira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (65% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 7 and 56. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 831 people named Nira (827 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 473 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,879 babies since 1880, Nira is the third most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 319 babies (8.5%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Nira and names like it
- Compare Nira and NyraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sNira peaked in 1933.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nira since 1910.
- The top names of 1933The year the most babies were named Nira.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Nira alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.