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.
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 1993
Top girls' names in 1993
Top boys' names in 1993
More about 1993
girls
1,809,072 girls got a published name in 1993; 1 in 3,882 of them was named Nia, which outranked 96.7% of the 15,801 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,961,328 boys got a published name in 1993; 1 in 392,266 of them was named Nia, which outranked 14.5% of the 10,170 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,470 names at #8,700; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.