Nigeria
#16,591 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nigeria has been given to 810 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #16,591 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 58 recorded.
Babies named Nigeria, 2025
1 in 663,000
Nigeria 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Nigeria?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #16,591
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nigeria 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nigeria. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nigerias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nigeria was born before 1999 — so the typical Nigeria is around 26 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 38.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 41.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 810
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 38.0% of all recorded uses (308).
Is Nigeria 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +251
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,900
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.63×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 8.6%
- Peak was 2000 (58)
- Years since peak
- 25
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.7% average annual change
Where Nigeria is used
Across 1910–2025, Nigeria was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 191,740 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1South Carolina1 in 50,000
- 2Florida1 in 100,000
- 3Georgia1 in 100,000
- 4North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 5Alabama1 in —
- 6Mississippi1 in —
- 7New Jersey1 in —
- 8New York1 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. Nigeria has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Nigeria by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nigeria
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nigeria
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.