Nariah
#1,607 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nariah has been given to 3,521 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #1,607 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 222 recorded.
Babies named Nariah, 2025
1 in 25,500
Nariah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Nariah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 25,500
- 130 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 12,400
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,607
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 17,677 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nariah sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 17,677 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nariah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nariahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nariah was born before 2012 — so the typical Nariah is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 42.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 95.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,521
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 42.3% of all recorded uses (1,489).
Is Nariah 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
- +22
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +580
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −115
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.84×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 58.6%
- Peak was 2009 (222)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 15.0% average annual change
Spellings of Nariah
Nariah is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 45.5% against Nariah's 0.15%.
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 Nariah is used
Across 2016–2025, Nariah was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 5,263 girls, against 1 in 13,460 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).
Most concentrated
- 1South Carolina1 in 5,263
- 2North Carolina1 in 7,143
- 3Florida1 in 8,333
- 4Georgia1 in 9,091
- 5Ohio1 in 11,111
- 6Virginia1 in 11,111
- 7New York1 in 12,500
- 8Pennsylvania1 in 14,286
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.
Nariah around the world
Where Nariah 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 & Wales2007–2025#2,605in 2025
- Canada2016–2024#3,457in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Nariah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nariah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Nariah
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Nariah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Nariah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.