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Nahia

girl name
Origin
Basque
Syllables
2
Peak era
2020s
Today
▲ Rising

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Meaning

desire, wish (Basque); a modern coinage from the Basque vocabulary revival

How popular is Nahia around the world?

In the United States, Nahia is on the Social Security birth record for 2020 to 2025. In Puerto Rico, 10 babies were named Nahia in 2025, and 272 have carried the name since 1998.

Nahia is on the official records of the United States, Puerto Rico, Spain, Montevideo, Mexico City, Argentina, South Australia, Chile, France, England and Wales and Brazil.

United States

on record

In the United States, Nahia is on the Social Security birth record for 2020 to 2025.

1890speak 2020s

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Nahia peaked in the 2020s.

Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration

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Puerto Rico

1 in 1,800

In Puerto Rico, 10 babies were named Nahia in 2025, and 272 have carried the name since 1998.

1998peak 2023

share of that year’s births on record

First given name only, from Social Security records of births in Puerto Rico; any name-sex-year under 5 births is withheld at source. Shares divide by the Puerto Rico Demographic Registry’s count of births on the island; the 2025 count is provisional. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, territory name file (Puerto Rico)

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Spain

1 in 5,100

In Spain, 8,795 residents are named Nahia, the 308th most common name among women, with a mean age of 13 years.

Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025

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Montevideo City

1 in 12,000 · 2011

In Montevideo, 2 girls named Nahia were born in 2011, spelling variants counted together.
The count never rose above 3 in a year, too few to chart.

Births in the department of Montevideo (not all of Uruguay) by first name and year of birth, 1940–2011, from the city’s civil registry, which writes names in capitals, almost always without accents; counted as spelling groups (accent and punctuation variants merged), nothing is withheld at source, and 2012 is excluded as a partial year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil, Intendencia de Montevideo, Partidas de Registro Civil de Montevideo (Licencia de Datos Abiertos - Uruguay); 2012 dropped as partial

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Mexico City City

1 in 13,000

In Mexico City, there were 9 registrations of Nahia in 2022.

2000peak 2021

share of that year’s registrations in the city

Civil-registry acts in Mexico City by registration year. Counts are lower bounds (names under 6 in a month and borough are removed at source) and count name-instances, not people; compound names are split, so “Maria Jose” counts under each part. 2023, a partial extract through 3 Mar with no cell on record for this name, is excluded. Source: Registro Civil of Mexico City, open data portal, registered given names 2000-2023

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Argentina

1 in 13,000

In Argentina, 50 newborns were given the name Nahia in 2024.

2012peak 2022

share of that year’s name registrations

Given-name components of births in Argentina 2012–2024; national cells are lower bounds and no sex split is published. Source: RENAPER (Argentina), Dirección Nacional de Población, given names 2012-2024

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South Australia

1 in 18,000 · 2017

In South Australia, 1 girl was registered as Nahia in 2017.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.

Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names

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Chile

1 in 20,000

In Chile, 9 girls were registered as Nahia in 2021, every accent spelling counted together.
The count never rose above 9 in a year, too few to chart.

First-name registrations with Chile’s civil registry by year of registration, 1920–2021, counted as spelling groups (Sofía, Sofia and Sofìa are one name, shown with its most-registered spelling); the registry withholds nothing, nametree keeps the groups that reached 5 registrations in some year, and shares divide by every registration of the year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil e Identificación (Chile) via the guaguas package, first-name registrations 1920-2021

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France

1 in 21,000

In France, about 30 girls named Nahia were born in 2025, ranked 1,178th among girls that year.

1970peak 2019

share of that year’s births on record

Births in France by year of birth, from INSEE’s fichier des prénoms (1900–2025; Mayotte from 2012); exact spellings count separately (Léo and Leo are different names), any spelling under 3 in a year and sex is withheld at source, every count is rounded to the nearest 5 at source, and nametree keeps the spellings that reached 20 in some year. Shares divide by INSEE’s count of births in France from 1957, and before that by the file’s own total for the year; INSEE says the file is not complete before 1946. Source: Insee, fichier des prénoms (last updated 2026-07-16)

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England and Wales

1 in 150,000

In England and Wales, 4 girls named Nahia were born in 2025, ranked 4,867th among girls that year.
The count never rose above 5 in a year, too few to chart.

Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales

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Brazil

At the 2022 census, 25 people in Brazil were named Nahia, ranked 106,978th, with a median age of 32.

People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022

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Not on the record in Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and Scotland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.

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