Niya
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Niya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 81K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 150K
- GHGhana≈1 in 166K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 242 (measured from records)
- 1 in 81K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ni-Ya in CN China.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Niya counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 326K | — | Ni-Ya | 4 |
| US United States | 4,100 | 1 in 81K | 4.1K | Niya | 242 |
| GH Ghana | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 166K | — | Niya | 3 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Niya | 8 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 218K | — | Niya | 13 |
| NL Netherlands | 68 | 1 in 254K | 68 | Niya | 7 |
| GY Guyana | 5 | 1 in 150K | 5 | — | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Niya is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In dag, effort; purpose; intention KO AJN entry : also aniya, nia <Hausa
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of にや
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In hnn, by him/her
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In aa, wish, will
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bik, his; her
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 42 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.1K | #4,513 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 68 | #7,008 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 61 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 60 | #10,666 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 24 | #4,513 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 5 | #589 |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Niya a male or female name?
- Niya is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Niya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.3 thousand people named Niya in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ni-ya.
- Where is Niya most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Niya is densest in the United States — about 1 in 81 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Niya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,100 people named Niya in 2020, about 1 in 81 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Niya?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/niyaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Niya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.