Nijah

Unisex name · Millennial-era

Living in the US: ~1,400 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank: Unranked no births recorded
Births in 2025: 0 1,403 since 1880
Typical age: 23 years, median

Nijah popularity over time

Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1977–2024. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

1998 is the peak year for Nijah, with 81 births. 1977 is the earliest year with at least five recorded births. The name last cleared the reporting threshold in 2024.

Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Nijah?

Roughly 1,400 Nijahs are alive in the US right now. SSA has recorded 1,403 births under the name since 1880. The split is about 1,200 women and 180 men.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Nijah?

The typical living Nijah is 23 years old. The 2000s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Nijah a millennial-era name.

Your Nijah

Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Is Nijah a boy's or a girl's name?

Share of all recorded US births under this name, 1880 to the latest year.

Recent births under the name Nijah divide almost evenly between girls and boys. Across the whole record, 86.9% of births under the name were girls.

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Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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