Nigeria
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 5 babies a year in the US.
Nigeria by the numbers
Nigeria was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 58 babies in 2000, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Nigeria
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Nigeria. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Nymeria15 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Nigeria
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