girls:
24.6k births since 1951
#909 (84th percentile)
boys:
10 births since 1989
#4576 (0th percentile)
overall:
24.6k births since 1951
#1621 (79th percentile)
The name Nia is the #1,621 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 24,588 recorded births since 1951. This represents the 79.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 79.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #909 (84.1% percentile) for all time with 24,578 births since 1951. For boys, it ranks #4,576 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1989.
Nia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1951 (1951 for girls and 1989 for boys). Birth data for Nia is available in 63 out of the 73 years between 1951 and 2023 (63 years for girls and 2 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Nia has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Nia reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 67.7% percentile (ranked #290) with 518 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 518 births per million (ranked 67.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Nia ranks #534 for girls (43.7% percentile) with 260 births per million, which is 50.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Nia reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #753) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1993.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nia".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Nia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 83.3% confident that Nia is pronounced as NEE-uh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NAI-uh, at 16.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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