Niyah

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Niyah: Recorded every year since 2000, it reached #837 in 2016, and it stood at #1,353 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
27times a registrar ranked it
25years from first to last
#837highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2000–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2000	#3912
2001	#2466
2002	#3409
2003	#2727
2004	#2112
2005	#2438
2006	#2137
2007	#2410
2008	#1584
2009	#1411
2010	#1429
2011	#1295
2012	#1150
2013	#1484
2014	#1299
2015	#1088
2016	#837
2017	#1512
2018	#1272
2019	#1316
2020	#1352
2021	#1128
2022	#1326
2023	#1469
2024	#1353

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 2000 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 2000–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2000
First recorded at #3912 among girls in England and Wales in 2000 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2000–2024
Highest recorded position: #837 among girls in England and Wales, in 2016 (recorded 2000–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1353 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Niyah appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 25 years beginning in 2000, and has registered 482 births with the name.

Niyah 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.

Niyah'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	#3912 (2000)	#837 (2016)	#1353 (2024)	25 of 25	482 (2000–2024)	45 (2016)
England and Wales · Boys	#4647 (2011)	#4632 (2014)	#4632 (2014)	2 of 4	6 (2011–2014)	3 (2011)

Niyah 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 Niyah in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	92	10 of 10	9
2010sbusiest	268	10 of 10	27
2020s	122	5 of 10	24

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 27 births a year.

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

Niyah appears in

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

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2000 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #837 in England and Wales in 2016.

Niyah'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	#1353	24	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1469	21	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1326	24	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1128	30	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1352	23	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1316	24	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1272	26	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1512	21	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#837	45	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1088	32	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1299	25	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#4632	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1484	21	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1150	29	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1295	24	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1429	21	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1411	20	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1584	17	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2410	9	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2137	10	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2438	8	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2112	9	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2727	6	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#3409	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2466	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 2000 and 2024, ranked in 25 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #837, first reached in 2016.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 45 births, registered in England and Wales in 2016.

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.

3decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 3 decades →
25 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#1,353position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
45births registered in its largest year, 201625 to 49 births →

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 1 registrar, 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.

Malaki · #837, 26y
Amiya · #836, 25y
Bluebell · #836, 24y
Murtaza · #836, 29y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

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

Amiya · #836, 25y
Mahek · #835, 23y
Anaisha · #834, 12y
Ariela · #834, 20y

Niyah was ranked #837 in England and Wales · Girls in 2016. 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.

Niyah 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 Niyah without appearing here.

Niyah moved ahead of

Finley Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2410 and #1965 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1584 and #3860.
Susan Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1512 and #1512 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1272 and #3518.
Jeanette Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2727 and #2727 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #2112 and #3725.
Rian Compare
In 2003 they stood at #3409 and #3409 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #2112 and #3725.

Moved ahead of Niyah

Fiadh Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1272 and #1436 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1316 and #1063.
Ezra Compare
In 2016 they stood at #837 and #1689 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #1512 and #1411.
Blake Compare
In 2015 they stood at #1088 and #1240 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #837 and #768.
Eabha Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1316 and #2458 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1352 and #1313.

Moved the opposite way to Niyah

Abigail Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Niyah went from #3912 to #1353 while Abigail went from #19 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Niyah went from #3912 to #1353 while Aimee went from #72 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Niyah went from #3912 to #1353 while Aisling went from #443 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Niyah went from #3912 to #1353 while Alex went from #186 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Niyah

Ada Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Niyah went from #3912 to #1353 and Ada from #1831 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Niyah went from #3912 to #1353 and Alma from #2416 to #234.
Amalie Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Niyah went from #3912 to #1353 and Amalie from #3912 to #1128.
Amelia Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Niyah went from #3912 to #1353 and Amelia from #35 to #2.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2000 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #837 in England and Wales in 2016. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Niyah

Niyah at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Niyah across 2 official records

Niyah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Niyah at a glance

Niyah across 2 official records

Niyah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Niyah and the names beside it

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