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The first name 
Niyah

Niyah is a first name for girls.

Niyah is a well-known but special name!

Niyah is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,776 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,775 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Niyah.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Niyah

Niyah -
ahead of the curve

In fact, the name Niyah did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Niyah seemed to be more popular than ever in 2001. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,326, 134 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Niyah, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Niyah was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Niyah in 2022 – originality welcome!

In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Niyah a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #2,109 - with a total of 78 baby girls. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving girls with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.

Niyah -
at home in half of America

The odds of living in the same state as someone with the first name Niyah are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This girl’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet girls and women with the name Niyah in 20 states – that is about every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Alabama, California, Colorado, Florida or Georgia. In relation to the number of residents, the most women and girls with the first name Niyah live in Florida – here, one in 28,548 bears this beautiful name. In comparison, if we look at all living women and girls in the whole country, only one in 104,737 will turn around if you call her first name Niyah.

Niyah has 5 letters 
and begins with an N

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter N is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 4.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A and S, while X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.

With five letters, the name Niyah is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Thus, it follows that with 4.1% of all girls' names starting with an N, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with N that are quite common, the most common in the U.S. at present is Nancy.

Other names with 
N, i, y, a and h

If you take all the letters in the name Niyah – N, i, y, a and h – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Nihya or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Niyah

If your name is Niyah and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Niyah

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Niyah, you can simply say:

Nut

Igloo

Yoyo

Apple

Hat

This is how the name Niyah is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Niyah in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Niyah

Niyah

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Niyah

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Niyah is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

N
I
Y
A
H

Have you ever waved the name Niyah

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

N
I
Y
A
H

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Niyah sounds like this: