Nia
Top 1000
About Nia
Short but energetic and substantial, Nia has special meaning for African-American parents, as it's one of the days of Kwanza. Nia also benefits by its similarity to (yet differentness from) the megapopular Mia.
Current bearers include actresses Long and Vardalos (born Antonia), and popular television show Dance Moms star Nia Frazier.
Pronounced NEE-uh.
As of October 2026, Nia ranked #702 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #307 in 2000, Nameberry popularity #634.
Editor: Sophie Kihm
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #481 | 654 | 366.1 |
| 2015 | #442 | 717 | 401.7 |
| 2016 | #438 | 736 | 415.3 |
| 2017 | #495 | 632 | 366.1 |
| 2018 | #473 | 659 | 387.4 |
| 2019 | #500 | 629 | 374.8 |
| 2020 | #495 | 618 | 382.3 |
| 2021 | #579 | 523 | 318.7 |
| 2022 | #604 | 496 | 302.4 |
| 2023 | #638 | 459 | 286.1 |
| 2024 | #672 | 428 | 264.2 |
| 2025 | #702 | 403 | 250.7 |
World rankings
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Nia on lists
Famous Nias
- Nia Temple Sanchez
Miss USA 2014
- Nitara Carlynn "Nia" Long
American actress
- Nia Roberts
Welsh actress
- Nia Sioux (Frazier)
American actress, singer, and dancer
- Nia Moore
American reality TV personality ("The Real World: Portland" and "The Challenge")
- Virenia "Nia" Peeples
American singer and actress
- Antonia "Nia" Vardalos
Canadian actress and filmmaker
- Nia Lovelis
drummer in American rock band Hey Violet
- Nia
Malika Henderson, American TV journalist
- Nia Riley
American reality TV personality; daughter of singer/producer Teddy Riley
- Nia Molloy (b. 2004)
daughter of actress Irene Molloy
- Nia Morris (b. 2014)
daughter of American musician Stevie Wonder
Nia in pop culture
- Nia Teppelin
character in anime series Gurren Lagann
- Nia Moseby
Mr. Moseby's niece on TV's "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody"
- Nia
character in the Hyakka Ryōran light novel series
- Nia
character in the Pop'n Music video game series
- Nia
main character in the movie "Equals"
- Nia
character in the TV show, "Canimals".
- Nia Wingfeather/Igiby
character in "The Wingfeather Saga" by Andrew Peterson