Nijah
Nijah is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 10 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 100.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 199875 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1977
- 1,403people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,219 girls have been named Nijah in the United States since 1977, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1998, with 75 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2001, and the 2000s alone account for 44%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 184 boys have also been given it, 13% of the total.
By decade
In 1998, its biggest year
Nijah was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1998 were Emily, Hannah, Samantha, Sarah and Ashley. See all of 1998.
Names that rose and fell with Nijah
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Destinypeak 2000
- Hanahpeak 2001
- Tionnapeak 2000
- Tyanapeak 2000
- Sydniepeak 2000
- Yasminepeak 1999
- Kiarrapeak 1999
- Sydneypeak 2000
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.