How rare is the name Niya?

4,100 people in the United States have the first name Niya, about 1 in 73,666. It ranks #4,513 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

NIYA

#4,513

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,100
About
1 in 73,666
This common or more
84.1%
Who bears it

Of the 4,100 people named Niya, 64% reported their origin as Black, 9.4% as White and 9.1% as Asian or Pacific Islander. 99.4% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Niya peaked in 2001, when 211 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19742025
Peak year
2001
Births that year
211
In 2025*
61 ▼71%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 4,790 babies have been given the name since 1974. 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.

Niya by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #2,312. The largest share of babies named Niya, 50.1%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1970s#4,639250
1980s#4,153371
1990s#2,933869
2000s#2,3121,684
2010s#3,4261,059
2020s#3,728557
Generation X 1965–806.5%
Millennials 1981–9616.2%
Generation Z 1997–1250.1%
2013 and later27.2%

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 Niya is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Niya has been most common in District of Columbia (5.1×), Maryland (3.7×), and Florida (2.5×), and least common in Indiana (0.52×).

2,828 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.

Either side of Niya

#4,511 Briggs · 4,104#4,512 Anja · 4,102#4,514 Arvin · 4,099#4,514 Shavon · 4,099

Spelled almost the same

3 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Niya, most common first.

#1,511 Nia · 21,920#6,763 Niyah · 2,334#37,052 Niaya · 212

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