Nira
#4,878 for girls in 2025, 27 births · Last seen for boys in 1933 at #3,268
Given to girls 99.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1933 · 201 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 804since 1917
Nira over time
Rank among girls' names. Nira has never cracked the top 400 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 | #4,878 | 27 | — | |
| 2024 | #6,932 | 16 | — | |
| 2023 | #5,390 | 23 | — | |
| 2022 | #6,984 | 16 | — | |
| 2021 | #5,091 | 25 | — | |
| 2020 | #6,325 | 18 | — | |
| 2019 | #7,025 | 16 | — | |
| 2018 | #7,409 | 15 | — | |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | — | |
| 2016 | #8,393 | 13 | — | |
| 2015 | #13,006 | 7 | — | |
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 | — | |
| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 | — | |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 | — | |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | — | |
| 2010 | #12,276 | 8 | — | |
| 2009 | #11,459 | 9 | — | |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | — | |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 | — | |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 | — | |
| 2005 | #10,921 | 9 | — | |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | — | |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 | — | |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 | — | |
| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 | — | |
| 2000 | #10,745 | 8 | — | |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 | — | |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | — | |
| 1997 | — | — | ||
| 1996 | — | — | ||
| 1995 | — | — | ||
| 1994 | — | — | ||
| 1993 | — | — | ||
| 1992 | — | — | ||
| 1991 | — | — | ||
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | — | |
| 1989 | — | — | ||
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | — | |
| 1987 | — | — | ||
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | — | |
| 1985 | #7,563 | 8 | — | |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | — | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | — | |
| 1982 | — | — | ||
| 1981 | #6,804 | 9 | — | |
| 1980 | — | — | ||
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | — | |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 | — | |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | — | |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | — | |
| 1975 | — | — | ||
| 1974 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | — | |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 | — | |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | — | |
| 1970 | #5,818 | 8 | — | |
| 1969 | — | — | ||
| 1968 | — | — | ||
| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 | — | |
| 1966 | — | — | ||
| 1965 | — | — | ||
| 1964 | — | — | ||
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 | — | |
| 1962 | — | — | ||
| 1961 | #4,882 | 8 | — | |
| 1960 | — | — | ||
| 1959 | — | — | ||
| 1958 | — | — | ||
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | — | |
| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 | — | |
| 1955 | #4,376 | 8 | — | |
| 1954 | #5,148 | 6 | — | |
| 1953 | #3,269 | 12 | — | |
| 1952 | #4,483 | 7 | — | |
| 1951 | #4,385 | 7 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,909 | 13 | — | |
| 1949 | #3,393 | 10 | — | |
| 1948 | #4,651 | 6 | — | |
| 1947 | — | — | ||
| 1946 | — | — | ||
| 1945 | #4,556 | 5 | — | |
| 1944 | — | — | ||
| 1943 | — | — | ||
| 1942 | — | — | ||
| 1941 | — | — | ||
| 1940 | — | — | ||
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | #3,450 | 7 | — | |
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | #2,857 | 9 | — | |
| 1935 | #2,439 | 12 | — | |
| 1934 | #1,148 | 38 | — | |
| 1933 | #463 | 201 | #3,268 | 6 |
| 1932 | — | — | ||
| 1931 | #3,226 | 8 | — | |
| 1930 | — | — | ||
| 1929 | — | — | ||
| 1928 | — | — | ||
| 1927 | — | — | ||
| 1926 | #4,851 | 5 | — | |
| 1925 | #4,426 | 6 | — | |
| 1924 | — | — | ||
| 1923 | — | — | ||
| 1922 | — | — | ||
| 1921 | — | — | ||
| 1920 | #4,398 | 6 | — | |
| 1919 | — | — | ||
| 1918 | — | — | ||
| 1917 | #3,713 | 7 | — | |
| 1916 | — | — | ||
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| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Nira! It came in at #3,713, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1918–1919, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Nira
- 2,054 spots since 2024 (#6,932 → #4,878)
- 1,447 spots since 2020 (#6,325 → #4,878)
- 8,128 spots since 2015 (#13,006 → #4,878)
- Biggest drop: 685 spots in 1934 (#463 → #1,148)
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 1933 at #463 (201 births)
- Births halved by 1934, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1933
- Highest: 1 in 5,015 girls born in 1933 were named Nira (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 59,528 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 34.2% of all girls named Nira (275) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 7 | #3,713 (1917) | #3,713 |
| 1920s | 17 | #4,398 (1920) | #4,558 |
| 1930s | 275 | #463 (1933) | #2,264 |
| 1940s | 21 | #3,393 (1949) | #4,200 |
| 1950s | 63 | #2,909 (1950) | #4,576 |
| 1960s | 19 | #4,882 (1961) | #5,839 |
| 1970s | 47 | #5,818 (1970) | #8,244 |
| 1980s | 39 | #6,804 (1981) | #9,251 |
| 1990s | 18 | #10,345 (1999) | #12,475 |
| 2000s | 74 | #10,745 (2000) | #12,675 |
| 2010s | 99 | #7,025 (2019) | #10,823 |
| 2020s | 125 | #4,878 (2025) | #5,933 |
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.
Nira in 1917
Top girls' names in 1917
More about 1917
girls
1,081,267 girls got a published name in 1917; 1 in 154,467 of them was named Nira, which outranked 30.1% of the 5,310 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,344Winnona8
- #3,344Wretha8
- #3,344Zelta8
- #3,713Nira7
- #3,713Addine7
- #3,713Adene7
- #3,713Adina7
- #4,083Addis6
- #4,083Adelaine6
- #4,083Adena6
Tied with 369 names at #3,713; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.