Niah
#5,352 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Niah has been given to 1,741 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #5,352 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 77 recorded.
Babies named Niah, 2025
1 in 138,000
Niah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Niah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 138,000
- 24 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 67,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #5,352
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 95,747 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Niah 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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Niah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Niahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Niah was born before 2011 — so the typical Niah is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 37.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 84.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,741
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 37.6% of all recorded uses (655).
Is Niah 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
- −2,245
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,540
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,771
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.34×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 31.2%
- Peak was 2013 (77)
- Years since peak
- 12
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 13.9% average annual change
Spellings of Niah
Niah is not the most common spelling — Mia is, with 25.0% against Niah's 0.14%.
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 Niah is used
Across 1910–2025, Niah was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 133,444 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in 50,000
- 2California1 in 100,000
- 3New York1 in 100,000
- 4Texas1 in 100,000
- 5Illinois1 in —
- 6New Jersey1 in —
- 7Ohio1 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. Niah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Niah around the world
Where Niah 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 & Wales1997–2025#1,892in 2025
- Scotland2009–2021#792in 2021
- Ireland2007–2014#876in 2014
- France2020–2025#6,909in 2025
- Canada2002–2023#1,916in 2023
- South Australia2003–2013#818in 2013
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.
Niah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Niah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Niah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.