Niyah
#3,211 for girls in 2025, 49 births
- Peak · girls
- 2001 · 134 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,001since 1981
Niyah over time
Rank among girls' names. Niyah 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 | #3,211 | 49 |
| 2024 | #2,389 | 76 |
| 2023 | #2,466 | 72 |
| 2022 | #2,319 | 80 |
| 2021 | #2,212 | 84 |
| 2020 | #1,908 | 100 |
| 2019 | #1,755 | 117 |
| 2018 | #1,997 | 98 |
| 2017 | #1,976 | 100 |
| 2016 | #2,129 | 91 |
| 2015 | #1,894 | 107 |
| 2014 | #1,714 | 122 |
| 2013 | #1,866 | 108 |
| 2012 | #1,760 | 117 |
| 2011 | #1,780 | 114 |
| 2010 | #2,152 | 91 |
| 2009 | #2,076 | 98 |
| 2008 | #2,042 | 101 |
| 2007 | #1,940 | 106 |
| 2006 | #1,846 | 110 |
| 2005 | #1,690 | 117 |
| 2004 | #1,630 | 119 |
| 2003 | #1,446 | 136 |
| 2002 | #1,456 | 131 |
| 2001 | #1,411 | 134 |
| 2000 | #1,923 | 88 |
| 1999 | #2,527 | 56 |
| 1998 | #1,958 | 77 |
| 1997 | #2,733 | 45 |
| 1996 | #3,149 | 37 |
| 1995 | #3,422 | 32 |
| 1994 | #3,536 | 31 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 |
| 1992 | #6,008 | 15 |
| 1991 | #5,659 | 16 |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 |
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| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 |
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| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 |
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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.
Where Niyah is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Virginia#747 · 1 in 5,652
- North Carolina#805 · 1 in 6,013
- Ohio#1,060 · 1 in 10,270
- Michigan#1,139 · 1 in 10,303
- New York#1,291 · 1 in 11,191
Best ever in a state: #361 in Maryland, 2002.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Virginia | #747 | 6 | 1 in 5,652 |
| North Carolina | #805 | 7 | 1 in 6,013 |
| Ohio | #1,060 | 6 | 1 in 10,270 |
| Michigan | #1,139 | 5 | 1 in 10,303 |
| New York | #1,291 | 9 | 1 in 11,191 |
| Florida | #1,342 | 6 | 1 in 12,380 |
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See more about Niyah
- 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)
- Debuted 1981
- Peaked 2001 at #1,411 (134 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 24 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 38.0% of all girls named Niyah (1,140) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 13 | #8,128 (1981) | #8,636 |
| 1990s | 322 | #1,958 (1998) | #5,099 |
| 2000s | 1,140 | #1,411 (2001) | #1,746 |
| 2010s | 1,065 | #1,714 (2014) | #1,902 |
| 2020s | 461 | #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 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 22,947 of them was named Niyah, which outranked 88.2% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,940Teri78
- #1,940Tory78
- #1,940Venus78
- #1,958Niyah77
- #1,958Alexzandra77
- #1,958Ariyana77
- #1,958Baileigh77
- #1,977Alexie76
- #1,977Angelia76
- #1,977Chassidy76
Tied with 18 names at #1,958; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.