Niyear
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Niyear has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 2022. 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 2023, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Niyear, 2023
1 in 301,000
Niyear 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Niyear?
Niyear had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 301,000
- 11 of 3,314,783 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 155,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 208,877 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Niyear sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 208,877 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Niyear. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Niyears were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Niyear was born before 2023 — so the typical Niyear is around 2 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 16
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (16).
Is Niyear 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 2023 (11)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Niyear
Niyear is not the most common spelling — Neymar is, with 99.5% against Niyear's 0.55%.
- Neymar99.5%2,897
- Niyear0.55%16
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.
Niyear by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Niyear
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Niyear
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.