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How popular is “Nia” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nia” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Nia” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Nia” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Nia” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Nia” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Nia” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nia” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1951 6 0.000001629 6 100%
1954 7 0.000001758 7 100%
1957 6 0.000001428 6 100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 100%
1965 13 0.000003586 13 100%
1966 20 0.000005754 20 100%
1967 12 0.000003535 12 100%
1968 15 0.00000444 15 100%
1969 20 0.000005755 20 100%
1970 19 0.000005268 19 100%
1971 31 0.000009032 31 100%
1972 48 0.000015272 48 100%
1973 44 0.000014585 44 100%
1974 223 0.000073355 223 100%
1975 104 0.000034444 104 100%
1976 93 0.00003065 93 100%
1977 81 0.0000255 81 100%
1978 80 0.000025206 80 100%
1979 65 0.000019537 65 100%
1980 117 0.000033967 117 100%
1981 95 0.000027462 95 100%
1982 99 0.000028222 99 100%
1983 102 0.000029451 102 100%
1984 76 0.000021784 76 100%
1985 153 0.000042868 153 100%
1986 170 0.000047792 170 100%
1987 109 0.000030231 109 100%
1988 135 0.000036535 135 100%
1989 148 0.000038497 143 5 93%
1990 229 0.000057938 229 100%
1991 368 0.000094474 368 100%
1992 306 0.000079661 306 100%
1993 471 0.000124924 466 5 98%
1994 449 0.000120775 449 100%
1995 495 0.000135166 495 100%
1996 565 0.000154914 565 100%
1997 717 0.000197752 717 100%
1998 891 0.000242238 891 100%
1999 797 0.000215763 797 100%
2000 1033 0.000273287 1033 100%
2001 1025 0.000273816 1025 100%
2002 961 0.000257069 961 100%
2003 893 0.000234857 893 100%
2004 891 0.00023319 891 100%
2005 782 0.000203389 782 100%
2006 853 0.000215612 853 100%
2007 816 0.000204118 816 100%
2008 681 0.000173253 681 100%
2009 636 0.000166485 636 100%
2010 644 0.000174255 644 100%
2011 603 0.000164854 603 100%
2012 675 0.000184559 675 100%
2013 595 0.000163207 595 100%
2014 654 0.000176453 654 100%
2015 717 0.000193736 717 100%
2016 736 0.000200616 736 100%
2017 632 0.000176724 632 100%
2018 659 0.000187434 659 100%
2019 629 0.000181219 629 100%
2020 618 0.000184998 618 100%
2021 523 0.000154371 523 100%
2022 496 0.00014661 496 100%
2023 459 0.000138621 459 100%
2024 428 0.000128586 428 100%

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