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Naia

#1,585 in 2025Girls' name

Wave, sea foam

Naia has been given to 2,228 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #1,585 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 143 recorded.

Babies named Naia, 2025

1 in 24,900

Naia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Naia: meaning, origin, and history

Wave, sea foam

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Naia means

Naia means “wave, sea foam”.

Origin, language, and formation

Naia is used in Danish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,228 girls were recorded with the name Naia between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 143 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,509 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,715 in 2020 to #1,585 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,083 in 2015 to #1,585 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Naia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 24,900
133 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 12,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,585
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
17,279 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Naia 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 17,279 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Naia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Naias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Naia was born before 2015 — so the typical Naia is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,228
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.0% of all recorded uses (825).

Is Naia 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
+262
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+130
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+498
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.41×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
93.0%
Peak was 2023 (143)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,509
2023

Spellings of Naia

Naia is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 11.6% against Naia's 0.05%.

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 Naia is used

Across 2016–2025, Naia was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 351 girls, against 1 in 10,431 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in 100,000).

1285 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 351
  2. 2California1 in 6,667
  3. 3Florida1 in 7,692
  4. 4New York1 in 10,000
  5. 5Washington1 in 12,500
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 14,286
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 16,667
  8. 8Texas1 in 20,000

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.

Naia around the world

Where Naia 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
    2000–2025
    #973
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2002–2024
    #476
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2009–2023
    #856
    in 2023
  • France
    1990–2025
    #280
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2024
    #835
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2003–2003
    #739
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Naia

People whose public names include Naia, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Naia in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Naia. Linked forms have their own page here.

NahiaNaimaNaiara

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Naia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,585
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 130
Best rank ever
#1,509
2023
Peak year
2023
143 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,228
Count in 2025
133

Names similar to Naia

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

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Names with a curve like Naia

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Naia, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ArmoniEmmiItalyLaynieHafsaRivkyJulesAoifeZaynaLillithLiyaCooper

Sibling names for Naia

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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