Naya
Naya was given to 336 girls in 2025, #813 among girls’ names; 6,563 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,510 Americans named Naya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Naya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Naya mean?
Wiktionary, Danish section
Naya is “a female given name, a less common spelling of Naja”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Danish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Naya?
#813 among girls’ names, 2025
Naya fell from #778 in 2015 to #813 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 0.20 to 0.21 per 1,000.
446 babies in 2021, the peak
Naya peaked in 2021, when 446 girls were given it, #668 among girls’ names. The 336 births of 2025 are 75% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 336 | #813 | 0.21 |
| 2024 | 296 | #899 | 0.18 |
| 2023 | 337 | #821 | 0.21 |
| 2022 | 387 | #749 | 0.24 |
| 2021 | 446 | #668 | 0.27 |
| 2020 | 361 | #754 | 0.22 |
| 2019 | 257 | #1,005 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 271 | #977 | 0.16 |
| 2017 | 276 | #961 | 0.16 |
| 2016 | 330 | #855 | 0.19 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 363 | #778 | 0.20 |
| 2014 | 362 | #777 | 0.20 |
| 2013 | 244 | #1,022 | 0.14 |
| 2012 | 168 | #1,389 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 141 | #1,562 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 129 | #1,656 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 106 | #1,972 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 103 | #2,027 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 102 | #2,013 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 86 | #2,244 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 82 | #2,234 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 104 | #1,831 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 136 | #1,450 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 128 | #1,489 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 156 | #1,263 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 165 | #1,205 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 142 | #1,294 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 131 | #1,345 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 89 | #1,737 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,879 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 36 | #3,194 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,414 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,553 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 48 | #2,596 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 30 | #3,601 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,809 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,488 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,951 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,216 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,673 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,887 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,659 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,620 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,437 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,131 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,351 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,421 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Naya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Naya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Naya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Naya, and how old are they?
6,510 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,563 Americans ever recorded as Naya. The median Naya alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 4,458 people named Naya (4,430 women and girls, 28 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,454 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 39 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 281 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,950 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,240 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Naya born?
The states with the most babies named Naya are California, Texas and Florida, with 46% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 74 | #456 | 1.5× |
| Texas | 31 | #943 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 30 | #593 | 1.3× |
| Michigan | 26 | #348 | 1.1× |
| New York | 22 | #751 | 1.4× |
| New Jersey | 18 | #442 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 13 | #736 | 1.1× |
| Washington | 11 | #611 | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #557 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,046 | 0.7× |
Where Naya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Naya is most over-represented in California: since 1974 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Naya with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,531 babies since 1880, Naya is the most given (40% of them). In 2025 it was given to 336 of their 625 babies (54%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Naya
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Naya and names like it
- Compare Naya and NanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sNaya peaked in 2021.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Naya since 1910.
- Danish namesWiktionary’s origin for Naya: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Naya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Naya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.