first name
NIA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 21,920 people named Nia, 62% reported their origin as Black, 14.4% as Hispanic or Latino and 11% as White. Virtually all are female (99.5%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Nia peaked in 2000, when 1,033 babies got the name.
At least 25,432 babies have been given the name since 1951. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Nia by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #719. The largest share of babies named Nia, 50.7%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Nia is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Nia has been most common in District of Columbia (3.2×), Maryland (2.3×), and Georgia (2.1×), and least common in Iowa (0.15×).
23,322 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Nia, most common first.
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