Nia

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Nia: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Nia: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #209 in 2002, and it stood at #413 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
71times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#209highest recorded position
15groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#337
1997	#277
1998	#281
1999	#275
2000	#254
2001	#232
2002	#259
2003	#234
2004	#231
2005	#253
2006	#238
2007	#251
2008	#241
2009	#293
2010	#317
2011	#307
2012	#299
2013	#273
2014	#324
2015	#316
2016	#273
2017	#303
2018	#305
2019	#305
2020	#304
2021	#289
2022	#290
2023	#323
2024	#328

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #328 among girls in England and Wales, #407 among girls in Northern Ireland, #441 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #541 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #337 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2002–2024
Highest recorded position: #209 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2002 (recorded 2002–2024).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #413 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Nia appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 4,640 births with the name.

Nia across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Nia's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#337 (1996)	#231 (2004)	#328 (2024)	29 of 29	4,640 (1996–2024)	206 (2008)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#528 (1999)	#315 (2013)	#413 (2025)	24 of 27	225 (1999–2025)	15 (2013)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#209 (2002)	#209 (2002)	#407 (2024)	17 of 23	74 (2002–2024)	7 (2002)

Nia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Nia in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	507	4 of 10	127
2000sbusiest	1,806	10 of 10	181
2010s	1,587	10 of 10	159
2020s	740	5 of 10	148

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 181 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2008 and 2009, when recorded births fell by 45, from 206 to 161.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Nia appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #209 in Northern Ireland in 2002.

Nia's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#328	131	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#323	137	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#290	155	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#289	164	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#304	153	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#305	156	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#305	156	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#303	161	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#273	183	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#316	148	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#324	143	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#273	172	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#299	160	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#307	159	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#317	149	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#293	161	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#241	206	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#251	198	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#238	198	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#253	176	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#231	197	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#234	192	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#259	152	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#232	170	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#254	156	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#275	134	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#281	135	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#277	136	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#337	102	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#407	3	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#328	4	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#266	6	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#446	3	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#336	4	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#263	6	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#440	3	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#248	7	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#365	4	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#370	4	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#277	6	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#366	4	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	female	#384	3	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#318	4	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	female	#372	3	High	Verified
2002	Northern Ireland	female	#209	7	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#413	9	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#441	8	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#364	10	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#502	7	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#336	12	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#315	13	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#551	6	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#336	13	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#579	6	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#335	13	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#532	7	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#404	11	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#315	15	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#435	10	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#359	13	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#356	14	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#439	10	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#469	9	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#431	9	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#372	9	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#370	8	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#403	7	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#528	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#541	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #209, first reached in 2002.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 206 births, registered in England and Wales in 2008.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1999, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Margo · #209, 33y
Raina · #209, 26y
Devin · #208, 33y
Zayan · #208, 27y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Cadan · #209, 28y
Findlay · #209, 29y
Raina · #209, 26y
Christy · #210, 31y

Nia was ranked #209 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2002. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Nia and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Nia without appearing here.

Nia moved ahead of

Shania Compare
In 2015 they stood at #532 and #494 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2016 that had become #335 and #868.
Marianne Compare
In 2024 they stood at #441 and #441 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2025 that had become #413 and #885.
Cameron Compare
In 2008 they stood at #764 and #464 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2009 that had become #439 and #893.
Kim Compare
In 2012 they stood at #435 and #435 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2013 that had become #315 and #747.

Moved ahead of Nia

Matilda Compare
In 2005 they stood at #372 and #523 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2006 that had become #764 and #260.
Éala Compare
In 2018 they stood at #336 and #411 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2019 that had become #551 and #180.
Rosie Compare
In 2003 they stood at #209 and #227 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2004 that had become #372 and #139.
Amelia Compare
In 2003 they stood at #209 and #286 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2004 that had become #372 and #155.

Moved the opposite way to Nia

Harper Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nia went from #232 to #328 while Harper went from #3262 to #22.
Amelia Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in Northern Ireland · Girls, Nia went from #209 to #407 while Amelia went from #286 to #14.
Annie Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in Northern Ireland · Girls, Nia went from #209 to #407 while Annie went from #100 to #11.
Aoife Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in Northern Ireland · Girls, Nia went from #209 to #407 while Aoife went from #21 to #4.

Moved the same way as Nia

Abigail Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in Northern Ireland · Girls, Nia went from #209 to #407 and Abigail from #49 to #80.
Aimee Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in Northern Ireland · Girls, Nia went from #209 to #407 and Aimee from #22 to #179.
Alexandra Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in Northern Ireland · Girls, Nia went from #209 to #407 and Alexandra from #52 to #253.
Amy Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in Northern Ireland · Girls, Nia went from #209 to #407 and Amy from #8 to #253.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #209 in Northern Ireland in 2002. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Nia across 3 official records

Nia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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