Nizhoni
Nizhoni was given to 30 girls in 2025, #4,633 among girls’ names; 834 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nizhoni by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nizhoni?
#4,633 among girls’ names, 2025
Nizhoni rose from #5,257 in 2015 to #4,633 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 14.6 to 18.7 per million.
39 babies in 2018, the peak
Nizhoni peaked in 2018, when 39 girls were given it, #3,828 among girls’ names. The 30 births of 2025 are 77% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,633 | 18.7 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,915 | 13.0 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,340 | 15.0 |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,758 | 17.7 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,605 | 11.0 |
| 2020 | 20 | #6,014 | 12.4 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,354 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,828 | 22.9 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,975 | 12.2 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,747 | 13.0 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #5,257 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,622 | 17.4 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,134 | 20.5 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,673 | 13.6 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,218 | 19.9 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,939 | 16.3 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,347 | 19.1 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,848 | 16.4 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,910 | 15.6 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,768 | 15.8 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,923 | 14.6 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,907 | 14.7 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,176 | 17.5 |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,041 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,171 | 16.7 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,628 | 11.0 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,686 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,075 | 11.9 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,558 | 10.3 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,644 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,382 | 6.8 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,951 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,333 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,970 | 4.3 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,820 | 3.5 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,737 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,818 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nizhoni a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nizhoni has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nizhoni: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nizhoni, and how old are they?
An estimated 826 Americans named Nizhoni and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 9 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 568 people named Nizhoni (553 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 691 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 Nizhoni born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 9 | #739 | 10.5× |
Where Nizhoni is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nizhoni is most over-represented in Arizona: since 1979 it was given 10.5 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 Nizhoni with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Nizhoni
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 Nizhoni and names like it
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- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Nizhoni.
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