Niyah

#3,211 for girls in 2025, 49 births

Peak · girls
2001 · 134 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
3,001
since 1981

Niyah over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Niyah has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201981peak #1,411, 2001girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025#3,21149
2024#2,38976
2023#2,46672
2022#2,31980
2021#2,21284
2020#1,908100
2019#1,755117
2018#1,99798
2017#1,976100
2016#2,12991
2015#1,894107
2014#1,714122
2013#1,866108
2012#1,760117
2011#1,780114
2010#2,15291
2009#2,07698
2008#2,042101
2007#1,940106
2006#1,846110
2005#1,690117
2004#1,630119
2003#1,446136
2002#1,456131
2001#1,411134
2000#1,92388
1999#2,52756
1998#1,95877
1997#2,73345
1996#3,14937
1995#3,42232
1994#3,53631
1993#10,5887
1992#6,00815
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First appearance
1981

The first year at least five girls were named Niyah! It came in at #8,128, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1982–1983, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Niyah
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 822 spots since 2024 (#2,389#3,211)
  • 1,303 spots since 2020 (#1,908#3,211)
  • 1,317 spots since 2015 (#1,894#3,211)
Rise & fade · girls
20 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1981
  • Peaked 2001 at #1,411 (134 births)
  • Births halved by 2025, 24 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 13,435
  • Highest: 1 in 13,435 girls born in 2003 were named Niyah (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 32,801 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,411 in 2001, was only 1 in 13,437 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 38.0% of all girls named Niyah (1,140) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s13#8,128 (1981)#8,636
1990s322#1,958 (1998)#5,099
2000s1,140#1,411 (2001)#1,746
2010s1,065#1,714 (2014)#1,902
2020s461#1,908 (2020)#2,418

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.

Niyah in 1981

girls
#8,128
7 births · 1 in 238,294 girls

Top girls' names in 1981

  1. #1Jennifer57,046
  2. #2Jessica42,531
  3. #3Amanda34,372
  4. #4Sarah28,175
  5. #5Melissa28,005
  6. #6Amy20,345
  7. #7Nicole20,310
  8. #8Stephanie20,212
  9. #9Elizabeth20,168
  10. #10Heather17,946
  11. #8,128Niyah7
More about 1981

girls

1,668,060 girls got a published name in 1981; 1 in 238,294 of them was named Niyah, which outranked 33.4% of the 12,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Niyah
  1. #7,409Yuka8
  2. #7,409Zanetta8
  3. #7,409Zonia8
  4. #8,128Niyah7
  5. #8,128Aarika7
  6. #8,128Abbigale7
  7. #8,128Abbye7
  8. #9,110Aaisha6
  9. #9,110Abbra6
  10. #9,110Abel6

Tied with 981 names at #8,128; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1980
Risers
  1. 3,850Tashina#4,743#893
  2. 2,742Krystle#3,215#473
  3. 1,800Tierra#2,342#542
  4. 1,398Martine#2,189#791
  5. 999Nereida#1,981#982
Fallers
  1. 764Kylene#990#1,754
  2. 607Renada#708#1,315
  3. 560Ashanti#822#1,382
  4. 399Renata#336#735
  5. 395Tracee#959#1,354

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1981