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Niobe

#12,818 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Niobe has been given to 197 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #12,818 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Niobe, 2025

1 in 474,000

Niobe over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Niobe: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Ancient Greek

What Niobe means

Niobe is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Niobe is used in Greek Mythology.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ni.ó.bɛː/ and /ˈnaɪ.oʊ.ˌbi/ for Niobe.

Origin, language, and formation

Niobe is used in English. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Niobe comes through Ancient Greek Νιόβη.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Niobe is pronounced /ˈnaɪ.oʊ.bi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 197 girls were recorded with the name Niobe between 2003 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 2004; its best national rank was #4,248 in 2004.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,096 in 2020 to #12,818 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Niobe?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,818
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Niobe sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Niobe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Niobes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Niobe was born before 2007 — so the typical Niobe is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
62.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
197
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Choose a decade

2000s — 62.4% of all recorded uses (123).

Is Niobe 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
+278
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
21.2%
Peak was 2004 (33)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,248
2004

Spellings of Niobe

Niobe is not the most common spelling — Nicole is, with 96.5% against Niobe's 0.03%.

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 Niobe is used

Across 1910–2025, Niobe was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,664,335 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Niobe has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Niobe around the world

Where Niobe 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 & Wales
    2004–2014
    #5,691
    in 2014
  • France
    2005–2019
    #7,670
    in 2019
  • Canada
    2009–2009
    #3,263
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Niobe by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,818
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 278
Best rank ever
#4,248
2004
Peak year
2004
33 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
197
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Niobe

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Niobe

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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