Niobe
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Niobe is a girls' name of Greek origin. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Niobe mean?
Greek
A female given name from Ancient Greek.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Niobe a girl's or a boy's name?
Niobe is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Niobe in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 11,928th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Niobe, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2004, with 33 girls. It first appears in the records in 2003.
Half of all the girls named Niobe in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.
Niobe in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,230 |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,339 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,884 |
| 2008 | 10 | #10,802 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,729 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,606 |
| 2005 | 20 | #5,994 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,168 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,581 |
Names like Niobe
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Demi, Nyomi, Dafne, Zuri, Phoebe, Niomi, Kobi, Nayomi, Chloe, Khloe, Zoe, Remi
More Greek names
Luca, Theodore, Sophia, George, Theo, Lucas, Sofia, Alexander, Sebastian, Penelope, Margot, Luke, Sophie, Iris, Maisie, Lainey
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Niobe: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/niobe, updated 20 October 2026.