Nghia
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nghia has been given to 216 babies in the U.S. since 1981. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1987, with 15 recorded.
Babies named Nghia, 2012
1 in 523,000
Nghia 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Nghia?
Nghia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2012
- 1 in 523,000
- 7 of 3,657,590 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 271,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2012
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 362,179 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nghia sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 362,179 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nghia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nghias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nghia was born before 1991 — so the typical Nghia is around 34 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 45.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 65.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 211
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 45.0% of all recorded uses (95).
Is Nghia 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1987 (15)
- Years since peak
- 38
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.1% average annual change
Spellings of Nghia
Nghia is not the most common spelling — Shia is, with 44.8% against Nghia's 4.2%.
Where Nghia is used
Across 1910–2025, Nghia was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 968,483 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Nghia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Nghia around the world
Where Nghia 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.
- Canada1993–1993#1,824in 1993
- South Australia1981–1993#519in 1993
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Nghia by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Nghia
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nghia
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.