Nairah

#9,895 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Nairah has been given to 71 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #9,895 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Nairah, 2025

1 in 332,000

Nairah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Nairah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,895
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nairah 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nairah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nairahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nairah was born before 2017 — so the typical Nairah is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
39.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
71
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 39.4% of all recorded uses (28).

Is Nairah 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
+3,166
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+5,938
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.67×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
90.9%
Peak was 2022 (11)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,469
2022

Spellings of Nairah

Nairah is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 85.2% against Nairah's <0.01%.

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.

Nairah around the world

Where Nairah 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
    1996–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    2022–2023
    #5,799
    in 2023

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.

Nairah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,895
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#9,469
2022
Peak year
2022
11 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
71
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Nairah

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

Sibling names for Nairah

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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