Nijah
Nijah is a girl's name that peaked in 1998, when it was the 1,992nd most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 1,400 Nijahs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 23.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Nijah boys named Nijah
Girls and boys called Nijah
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Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 1,219 girls and 184 boys in all, and in 2011 the split was 27 to 0.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 19 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,403
- Estimated living today
- 1,400
- Median age today
- 23
- Peak year
- 1998
- Best rank
- 1,992nd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1977
- Girls / boys
- 1,219 / 184
How old the living Nijahs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,403 babies given the name since 1977, about 1,400 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2002 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 Nijah is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Nijah is most concentrated in Georgia (3.4×), Pennsylvania (2.6×), Illinois (2.5×), Florida (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1998
The most popular girls’ names the year Nijah peaked:
Related names
Nijah 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.