Nahia (given name)

The Basque Statistics Office cited it as the 5th most popular given name for baby girls born in the Basque Country between 2010 and 2012.^[2]

Outside the Basque Country, specially in Spain, the name of Naia is a more frequent given name and while, in Spanish they are pronounced similarly, they have different etymologies; Naia has instead a Greek mythological origin.^[3]

Variants of Nahia are:

• Nahikari
• Gure
• Since it is pronounced similarly, Naia is sometimes considered as a variant of Nahia when one prefers to consider its origin as Greek rather than Basque.