Niya
Niya was given to 61 girls in 2025, #2,807 among girls’ names; 4,790 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,720 Americans named Niya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 12 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Niya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Niya?
#2,807 among girls’ names, 2025
Niya fell from #1,726 in 2015 to #2,807 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 68.3 to 38.0 per million.
211 babies in 2001, the peak
Niya peaked in 2001, when 211 girls were given it, #1,021 among girls’ names. The 61 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | #2,807 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 76 | #2,404 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 90 | #2,136 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 93 | #2,081 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 108 | #1,857 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 129 | #1,621 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 86 | #2,164 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 116 | #1,771 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 101 | #1,974 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 113 | #1,837 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 122 | #1,726 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 113 | #1,816 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 94 | #2,061 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 122 | #1,712 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 89 | #2,153 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 103 | #1,956 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 99 | #2,071 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 116 | #1,850 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 144 | #1,578 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 160 | #1,422 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 166 | #1,327 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 185 | #1,211 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 195 | #1,129 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 210 | #1,031 | 0.12 |
| 2001 | 211 | #1,021 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 198 | #1,048 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 178 | #1,117 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 115 | #1,488 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 110 | #1,493 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 109 | #1,494 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 61 | #2,204 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 76 | #1,881 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 54 | #2,369 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 70 | #1,973 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 60 | #2,202 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,124 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,080 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,125 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 23 | #3,826 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,143 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 34 | #2,782 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 41 | #2,365 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,634 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 35 | #2,681 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 75 | #1,575 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 63 | #1,756 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 47 | #2,139 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 53 | #1,883 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 46 | #2,084 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 97 | #1,178 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,433 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Niya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Niya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Niya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Niya, and how old are they?
4,720 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,790 Americans ever recorded as Niya. The median Niya alive today is 22 years old; half are between 12 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 4,100 people named Niya (4,076 women and girls, 24 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,214 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 298 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 754 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,370 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,290 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Niya born?
The states with the most babies named Niya are California, New York and Texas, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 11 | #1,912 | 0.6× |
| New York | 6 | #2,009 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,665 | 0.6× |
Where Niya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Niya is most over-represented in Maryland: since 1974 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Niya with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 181,149 babies since 1880, Niya is the fifth most given (2.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 61 of their 1,625 babies (3.8%), again the fifth most given.
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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Niya
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Niya and names like it
- Compare Niya and NinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNiya peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Niya since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Niya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Niya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.