Nia
#702 for girls in 2025, 403 births · Last seen for boys in 1993 at #8,700
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2000 · 1,033 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 25,422since 1951
Nia over time
Rank among girls' names. Nia has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #702 | 403 | — | |
| 2024 | #671 | 431 | — | |
| 2023 | #637 | 460 | — | |
| 2022 | #603 | 497 | — | |
| 2021 | #578 | 523 | — | |
| 2020 | #494 | 618 | — | |
| 2019 | #500 | 629 | — | |
| 2018 | #472 | 659 | — | |
| 2017 | #494 | 632 | — | |
| 2016 | #438 | 736 | — | |
| 2015 | #442 | 718 | — | |
| 2014 | #481 | 654 | — | |
| 2013 | #506 | 595 | — | |
| 2012 | #464 | 675 | — | |
| 2011 | #492 | 604 | — | |
| 2010 | #469 | 644 | — | |
| 2009 | #483 | 636 | — | |
| 2008 | #464 | 681 | — | |
| 2007 | #401 | 816 | — | |
| 2006 | #380 | 853 | — | |
| 2005 | #402 | 782 | — | |
| 2004 | #356 | 891 | — | |
| 2003 | #345 | 893 | — | |
| 2002 | #319 | 961 | — | |
| 2001 | #310 | 1,025 | — | |
| 2000 | #307 | 1,033 | — | |
| 1999 | #368 | 797 | — | |
| 1998 | #330 | 891 | — | |
| 1997 | #376 | 717 | — | |
| 1996 | #448 | 565 | — | |
| 1995 | #495 | 495 | — | |
| 1994 | #543 | 449 | — | |
| 1993 | #522 | 466 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #704 | 306 | — | |
| 1991 | #614 | 368 | — | |
| 1990 | #859 | 229 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,149 | 143 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #1,132 | 135 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,280 | 109 | — | |
| 1986 | #941 | 169 | — | |
| 1985 | #998 | 153 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,502 | 76 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,237 | 102 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,284 | 99 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,319 | 95 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,152 | 117 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,694 | 65 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,434 | 80 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,380 | 81 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,216 | 93 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,119 | 104 | — | |
| 1974 | #672 | 223 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,885 | 44 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,786 | 48 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,427 | 31 | — | |
| 1970 | #3,311 | 19 | — | |
| 1969 | #3,012 | 20 | — | |
| 1968 | #3,456 | 15 | — | |
| 1967 | #3,845 | 12 | — | |
| 1966 | #2,752 | 20 | — | |
| 1965 | #3,549 | 13 | — | |
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| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 | — | |
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| 1957 | #5,377 | 6 | — | |
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| 1954 | #4,655 | 7 | — | |
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| 1951 | #4,833 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Nia! It came in at #4,833, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1952–1953, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Nia is popular in 1988
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Louisiana#456 · 1 in 2,924
- Maryland#485 · 1 in 3,710
- New Jersey#515 · 1 in 4,117
- Georgia#609 · 1 in 5,015
- Pennsylvania#736 · 1 in 7,768
Best ever in a state: #29 in District of Columbia, 1998.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | #456 | 9 | 1 in 2,924 |
| Maryland | #485 | 7 | 1 in 3,710 |
| New Jersey | #515 | 11 | 1 in 4,117 |
| Georgia | #609 | 8 | 1 in 5,015 |
| Pennsylvania | #736 | 9 | 1 in 7,768 |
| New York | #781 | 17 | 1 in 6,709 |
| Illinois | #879 | 9 | 1 in 8,189 |
| California | #1,508 | 13 | 1 in 17,572 |
| Texas | #1,874 | 5 | 1 in 25,659 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Nia
- 31 spots since 2024 (#671 → #702)
- 208 spots since 2020 (#494 → #702)
- 260 spots since 2015 (#442 → #702)
- Biggest jump: 1,213 spots in 1974 (#1,885 → #672)
- Biggest drop: 447 spots in 1975 (#672 → #1,119)
- Debuted 1951
- Peaked 2000 at #307 (1,033 births)
- Births halved by 2022, 22 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 39 yrs · run 1990–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,757 girls born in 2001 were named Nia (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,988 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
- Its best rank, #307 in 2000, was only 1 in 1,758 (0.06%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 33.7% of all girls named Nia (8,571) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 19 | #4,655 (1954) | #4,955 |
| 1960s | 85 | #2,752 (1966) | #3,865 |
| 1970s | 788 | #672 (1974) | #1,692 |
| 1980s | 1,198 | #941 (1986) | #1,199 |
| 1990s | 5,283 | #330 (1998) | #526 |
| 2000s | 8,571 | #307 (2000) | #377 |
| 2010s | 6,546 | #438 (2016) | #476 |
| 2020s | 2,932 | #494 (2020) | #614 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Nia in 1988
Top girls' names in 1988
More about 1988
girls
1,780,854 girls got a published name in 1988; 1 in 13,192 of them was named Nia, which outranked 91.8% of the 13,883 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,129Chelsy136
- #1,129Gail136
- #1,129Misti136
- #1,132Nia135
- #1,132Charissa135
- #1,132Danna135
- #1,132Fabiola135
- #1,140Austin134
- #1,140Brittnay134
- #1,140Catalina134
Tied with 7 names at #1,132; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.