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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Nija

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

815

peak year 1999

More common than

88%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1999
58 births
Best rank
#2,493
in 1999
First recorded
1973
#6,480 that year
Last recorded
2014
no later published record
Average birth year
1994
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
41 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 199958#2,493Peak
  2. 199851#2,683
  3. 200041#3,322
  4. 199637#3,210
  5. 200136#3,685

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #2,493 in 1999 · peak births 58 in 1999

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 2% boys■ 98% girls

19 boys · 815 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Nija has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.