Nija
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nija has been given to 834 babies in the U.S. since 1973. 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 1999, with 58 recorded.
Babies named Nija, 2014
1 in 618,000
Nija 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Nija?
Nija had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2014
- 1 in 618,000
- 6 of 3,706,812 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 298,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2014
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 428,229 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nija sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2014 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 428,229 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nija. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nijas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nija was born before 1996 — so the typical Nija is around 29 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 42.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 71.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 815
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 42.3% of all recorded uses (345).
Is Nija 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
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1999 (58)
- Years since peak
- 26
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.0% average annual change
Spellings of Nija
Nija is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 25.1% against Nija's 0.02%.
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 Nija is used
Across 1910–2025, Nija was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 439,151 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in —
- 2Georgia1 in —
- 3Maryland1 in —
- 4Michigan1 in —
- 5North Carolina1 in —
- 6New Jersey1 in —
- 7New York1 in —
- 8Pennsylvania1 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. Nija has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Nija by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Nija
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nija
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.