Niya
#2,778 for girls in 2025, 61 births
- Peak · girls
- 2001 · 211 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,790since 1974
Niya over time
Rank among girls' names. Niya has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,778 | 61 |
| 2024 | #2,389 | 76 |
| 2023 | #2,124 | 90 |
| 2022 | #2,068 | 93 |
| 2021 | #1,851 | 108 |
| 2020 | #1,616 | 129 |
| 2019 | #2,155 | 86 |
| 2018 | #1,762 | 116 |
| 2017 | #1,964 | 101 |
| 2016 | #1,828 | 113 |
| 2015 | #1,719 | 122 |
| 2014 | #1,804 | 113 |
| 2013 | #2,052 | 94 |
| 2012 | #1,705 | 122 |
| 2011 | #2,143 | 89 |
| 2010 | #1,942 | 103 |
| 2009 | #2,064 | 99 |
| 2008 | #1,844 | 116 |
| 2007 | #1,570 | 144 |
| 2006 | #1,415 | 160 |
| 2005 | #1,325 | 166 |
| 2004 | #1,209 | 185 |
| 2003 | #1,126 | 195 |
| 2002 | #1,031 | 210 |
| 2001 | #1,014 | 211 |
| 2000 | #1,049 | 198 |
| 1999 | #1,114 | 178 |
| 1998 | #1,481 | 115 |
| 1997 | #1,490 | 110 |
| 1996 | #1,491 | 109 |
| 1995 | #2,189 | 61 |
| 1994 | #1,862 | 76 |
| 1993 | #2,351 | 54 |
| 1992 | #1,965 | 70 |
| 1991 | #2,189 | 60 |
| 1990 | #3,078 | 36 |
| 1989 | #4,020 | 24 |
| 1988 | #4,015 | 22 |
| 1987 | #3,743 | 23 |
| 1986 | #4,028 | 20 |
| 1985 | #2,749 | 34 |
| 1984 | #2,340 | 41 |
| 1983 | #2,595 | 34 |
| 1982 | #2,645 | 35 |
| 1981 | #1,568 | 75 |
| 1980 | #1,749 | 63 |
| 1979 | #2,112 | 47 |
| 1978 | #1,862 | 53 |
| 1977 | #2,063 | 46 |
| 1976 | #1,172 | 97 |
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| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Niya! It came in at #6,900, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1975, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Niya is popular in 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#835 · 1 in 4,355
- New York#1,012 · 1 in 5,684
- Michigan#1,067 · 1 in 6,309
- Washington#1,074 · 1 in 5,826
- Georgia#1,153 · 1 in 6,355
Best ever in a state: #102 in District of Columbia, 2001.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #835 | 8 | 1 in 4,355 |
| New York | #1,012 | 14 | 1 in 5,684 |
| Michigan | #1,067 | 6 | 1 in 6,309 |
| Washington | #1,074 | 5 | 1 in 5,826 |
| Georgia | #1,153 | 7 | 1 in 6,355 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,227 | 6 | 1 in 8,058 |
| California | #1,550 | 15 | 1 in 11,614 |
| Florida | #1,580 | 7 | 1 in 11,494 |
| Texas | #1,948 | 10 | 1 in 15,294 |
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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 Niya
- 389 spots since 2024 (#2,389 → #2,778)
- 1,162 spots since 2020 (#1,616 → #2,778)
- 1,059 spots since 2015 (#1,719 → #2,778)
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 2001 at #1,014 (211 births)
- Births halved by 2009, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,534 girls born in 2001 were named Niya (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 26,349 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 35.2% of all girls named Niya (1,684) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 250 | #1,172 (1976) | #2,822 |
| 1980s | 371 | #1,568 (1981) | #2,945 |
| 1990s | 869 | #1,114 (1999) | #1,921 |
| 2000s | 1,684 | #1,014 (2001) | #1,365 |
| 2010s | 1,059 | #1,705 (2012) | #1,907 |
| 2020s | 557 | #1,616 (2020) | #2,138 |
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.
Niya in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 12,531 of them was named Niya, which outranked 90.8% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,608Izabelle130
- #1,608Jolee130
- #1,608Shoshana130
- #1,616Niya129
- #1,616Ashtyn129
- #1,616Coral129
- #1,616Fatimah129
- #1,623Annaleigh128
- #1,623Ayat128
- #1,623Edie128
Tied with 6 names at #1,616; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.