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Nahia

#3,329 in 2025Girls' name

Desire, wish

Nahia has been given to 430 babies in the U.S. since 2006. In 2025 it ranked #3,329 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 58 recorded.

Babies named Nahia, 2025

1 in 70,500

Nahia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nahia: meaning, origin, and history

Desire, wish

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nahia means

Nahia means “desire, wish”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 430 girls were recorded with the name Nahia between 2006 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 58 in 2022; its best national rank was #2,915 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,967 in 2020 to #3,329 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,182 in 2015 to #3,329 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Nahia?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 70,500
47 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 34,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,329
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
48,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nahia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 48,893 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nahia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nahias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nahia was born before 2021 — so the typical Nahia is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
62.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
430
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 62.1% of all recorded uses (267).

Is Nahia rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+544
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,638
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,853
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.24×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
81.0%
Peak was 2022 (58)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,915
2022

Spellings of Nahia

Nahia is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 43.7% against Nahia's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Nahia is used

Across 1910–2025, Nahia was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 419,588 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in —
  4. 4New Jersey1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Nahia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nahia around the world

Where Nahia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2007–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    1979–2025
    #1,178
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Nahia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,329
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,638
Best rank ever
#2,915
2022
Peak year
2022
58 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
430
Count in 2025
47

Names similar to Nahia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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