Niah

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Niah: Recorded every year since 1997, it reached #842 in 2007, and it stood at #1,491 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
34times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#842highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#2152
1998	#3142
1999	#2189
2000	#1688
2001	#1359
2002	#1192
2003	#1722
2004	#1252
2005	#1500
2006	#1386
2007	#1502
2008	#1176
2009	#1248
2010	#1072
2011	#1196
2012	#1210
2013	#1148
2014	#1016
2015	#1057
2016	#1031
2017	#1411
2018	#1526
2019	#1316
2020	#1044
2021	#1692
2022	#1767
2023	#1863
2024	#1491

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 1997 to 2024.

In 2014: #876 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1016 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1997–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #2152 among girls in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2007–2014
Highest recorded position: #842 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2007 (recorded 2007–2014).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1491 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Niah appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 572 births with the name.

Niah 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.

Niah'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	#2152 (1997)	#1016 (2014)	#1491 (2024)	28 of 28	572 (1997–2024)	35 (2014)
England and Wales · Boys	#3134 (2001)	#3134 (2001)	#3987 (2012)	4 of 12	15 (2001–2012)	4 (2007)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#842 (2007)	#842 (2007)	#876 (2014)	2 of 8	6 (2007–2014)	3 (2007)

Niah 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 Niah in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	18	3 of 10	6
2000s	169	10 of 10	17
2010sbusiest	284	10 of 10	28
2020s	101	5 of 10	20

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 28 births a year.

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

Niah 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 2 regions, from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #842 in Republic of Ireland in 2007.

Niah'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	#1491	21	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1863	15	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1767	16	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1692	17	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1044	32	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1316	24	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1526	20	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1411	23	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1031	34	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1057	33	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1016	35	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1148	30	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1210	27	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3987	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1196	27	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1072	31	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1248	24	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3744	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1176	25	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1502	17	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3589	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1386	18	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1500	15	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1252	18	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1722	11	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1192	17	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1359	14	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1688	10	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2189	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2152	7	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#842	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1997 and 2024, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #842, first reached in 2007.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 35 births, registered in England and Wales in 2014.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2007, and 10 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 2 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.

Anneliese · #842, 29y
Jessy · #842, 27y
Leticia · #842, 29y
Avni · #841, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Abigaile · #842, 13y
Anneliese · #842, 29y
Giada · #842, 19y
Ifrah · #842, 29y

Niah was ranked #842 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2007. 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.

Niah 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 Niah without appearing here.

Niah moved ahead of

Karin Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2189 and #1557 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #1688 and #3912.
Sinead Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1863 and #1705 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1491 and #3695.
Brittany Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1500 and #1500 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1386 and #3548.
Tayla Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1863 and #1774 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1491 and #3318.

Moved ahead of Niah

Mila Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1192 and #1442 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #1722 and #799.
Ezra Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1044 and #1164 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1692 and #983.
Eabha Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1044 and #1313 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1692 and #1069.
Ida Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1386 and #1435 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #1502 and #987.

Moved the opposite way to Niah

Josefine Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Niah went from #3142 to #1863 while Josefine went from #3848 to #5687.
Rian Compare
Between 1997 and 2015 in England and Wales · Girls, Niah went from #2152 to #1057 while Rian went from #2152 to #5730.
Vicki Compare
Between 1997 and 2012 in England and Wales · Girls, Niah went from #2152 to #1210 while Vicki went from #1015 to #5876.
Martine Compare
Between 1997 and 2011 in England and Wales · Girls, Niah went from #2152 to #1196 while Martine went from #1543 to #4764.

Moved the same way as Niah

Dylan Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Niah went from #3142 to #1491 and Dylan from #3848 to #1743.
Marilyn Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Niah went from #3142 to #1491 and Marilyn from #2701 to #1541.

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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 2 regions, from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #842 in Republic of Ireland in 2007. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Popularity journey

Niah across 3 official records

Niah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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