girls:
761 births since 1917
#4955 (13th percentile)
boys:
6 births since 1933
#4580 (0th percentile)
overall:
767 births since 1917
#6972 (10th percentile)
The name Nira is the #6,972 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 767 recorded births since 1917. This represents the 9.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,955 (13.3% percentile) for all time with 761 births since 1917. For boys, it ranks #4,580 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 1933.
Nira first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1917 (1917 for girls and 1933 for boys). Birth data for Nira is available in 65 out of the 107 years between 1917 and 2023 (65 years for girls and 1 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 Nira has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.2% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Nira reached its peak popularity in 1933, achieving the 30.6% percentile (ranked #398) with 192 births per million. The name was most common in 1933, with 192 births per million (ranked 30.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Nira ranks #929 for girls (1.9% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 6.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Nira reached its peak popularity in 1933, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #520) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1933, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1933.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nira".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Nira. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.0% confident that Nira is pronounced as NIH-ruh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NAI-ruh, at 30.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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