Niya
#2,807 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Niya has been given to 4,790 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #2,807 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 211 recorded.
Babies named Niya, 2025
1 in 54,300
Niya 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Niya?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 54,300
- 61 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 26,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,807
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 37,672 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Niya 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 37,672 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Niya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Niyas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Niya was born before 2004 — so the typical Niya is around 21 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 35.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 64.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 4,790
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 35.2% of all recorded uses (1,684).
Is Niya 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
- −403
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,186
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,081
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.50×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 28.9%
- Peak was 2001 (211)
- Years since peak
- 24
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.5% average annual change
Spellings of Niya
Niya is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 22.3% against Niya's 0.11%.
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 Niya is used
Across 2016–2025, Niya was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 19,444 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 12,500
- 2Georgia1 in 14,286
- 3Texas1 in 14,286
- 4Florida1 in 16,667
- 5New York1 in 16,667
- 6Michigan1 in 25,000
- 7Tennessee1 in 25,000
- 8Washington1 in 25,000
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.
Niya around the world
Where Niya 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 & Wales2002–2025#1,271in 2025
- Scotland2013–2013#816in 2013
- Ireland2018–2025#885in 2025
- France2004–2025#757in 2025
- Canada2001–2024#991in 2024
- South Australia2008–2011#840in 2011
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.
Niya by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Niya
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Niya
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Niya, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Niya
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.