Niya

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Niya: Recorded every year since 2002, it reached #883 in 2021, and it stood at #885 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
27times a registrar ranked it
24years from first to last
#883highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2002–2025

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2002	#4137
2003	#2191
2004	#3197
2005	#1934
2006	#1280
2007	#2233
2008	#1344
2009	#1596
2010	#1901
2011	#1903
2012	#1649
2013	#1400
2014	#1628
2015	#1452
2016	#1416
2017	#1184
2018	#990
2019	#897
2020	#1127
2021	#957
2022	#1245
2023	#1169
2024	#1097
2025	#1271

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 2002 to 2025.

In 2025: #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1271 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 2002–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

Popularity journey

First recorded2002
First recorded at #4137 among girls in England and Wales in 2002 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2018–2025
Highest recorded position: #883 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2021 (recorded 2018–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #1271 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Niya appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 24 years beginning in 2002, and has registered 507 births with the name.

Niya across 2 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.

Niya'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	#4137 (2002)	#897 (2019)	#1271 (2025)	24 of 24	507 (2002–2025)	40 (2019)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#896 (2018)	#883 (2021)	#885 (2025)	3 of 8	9 (2018–2025)	3 (2018)

Niya 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 Niya in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	95	8 of 10	12
2010s	237	10 of 10	24
2020sbusiest	175	6 of 10	29

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 29 births a year.

See the names England and Wales has recorded the most births with →

Niya appears in

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

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 2002 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #883 in Republic of Ireland in 2021.

Niya'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
2025	England and Wales	female	#1271	25	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	female	#1097	31	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1169	28	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1245	26	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#957	36	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1127	29	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#897	40	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#990	36	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1184	29	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1416	23	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1452	22	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1628	18	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1400	23	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1649	18	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1903	14	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1901	14	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1596	17	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1344	21	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2233	10	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1280	20	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1934	11	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3197	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2191	8	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	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.

Where Niya is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Niya, between 2002 and 2025. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Each mark is a year the registrar recorded the name; the diamond is that registrar's highest position. Gaps can mean a year was not published, not that the name went unused.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	2002–2025	24	#897 in 2019
Republic of Ireland	2018–2025	3	#883 in 2021

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 2002 and 2025, ranked in 24 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #883, first reached in 2021.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 40 births, registered in England and Wales in 2019.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2018, and 16 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.

Cyra · #883, 26y
Daisey · #883, 29y
Ginevra · #883, 19y
Sila · #883, 26y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Anisia · #883, 15y
Dream · #883, 9y
Iasmina · #883, 14y
Livie · #883, 17y

Niya was ranked #883 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2021. 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.

Aarya#883
Adagh#883
Adela#883
Aedín#883

Niya 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 2,576 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Niya without appearing here.

Niya moved ahead of

George
In 2007 they stood at #3197 and #2802 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1344 and #5545.
Maren
In 2005 they stood at #4137 and #4137 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1280 and #5061.
Cameron
In 2012 they stood at #1649 and #1428 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1400 and #4050.
Finley
In 2007 they stood at #2233 and #1965 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1344 and #3860.

Moved ahead of Niya

Fiadh
In 2019 they stood at #897 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1127 and #460.
Harper
In 2008 they stood at #1344 and #1391 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1596 and #1171.
Blake
In 2014 they stood at #1628 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #1452 and #1240.

Moved the opposite way to Niya

Abigail
Between 2002 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Niya went from #4137 to #1271 while Abigail went from #22 to #171.
Aimee
Between 2002 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Niya went from #4137 to #1271 while Aimee went from #65 to #1809.
Aisling
Between 2002 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Niya went from #4137 to #1271 while Aisling went from #513 to #1892.
Alex
Between 2002 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Niya went from #4137 to #1271 while Alex went from #233 to #2605.

Moved the same way as Niya

Ada
Between 2002 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Niya went from #4137 to #1271 and Ada from #2301 to #40.
Alma
Between 2002 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Niya went from #4137 to #1271 and Alma from #2105 to #211.
Amelia
Between 2002 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Niya went from #4137 to #1271 and Amelia from #25 to #3.
Aoife
Between 2002 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Niya went from #4137 to #1271 and Aoife from #344 to #192.

What is known about Niya

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 2 official registrars, 2002–2025.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not 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 2002 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #883 in Republic of Ireland in 2021. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Niya across 2 official records

Niya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Niya across 2 official records

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