Niam
The boy's name Niam has been in the national records since 1993, with 1,798 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,436th. About 1,800 Niams are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 6.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Niam
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,798
- Estimated living today
- 1,800
- Median age today
- 6
- Peak year
- 2021
- Best rank
- 1,168th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,436th
- First recorded
- 1993
How old the living Niams are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,798 babies given the name since 1993, about 1,800 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,700 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2019 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Niam is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Niam is most concentrated in New Jersey (4.6×), Illinois (2.3×), Virginia (2.0×), California (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2021
The most popular boys’ names the year Niam peaked:
Niam elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Niam | 498 | 833rd |
| Switzerland boys | Niam | 34 | 1,000th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Niam: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Niam | 34 | 0.003% | 732nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Niam by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 566th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Related names
Niam against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.