Nayab — girls' name
70 babies named Nayab in U.S. Social Security records since 1992, with the highest year being 1993. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
46% of everyone ever named Nayab was born in this single decade.
9 babies were named Nayab in 1993 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Nayab
The Social Security Administration has registered 70 babies named Nayab between 1992 and 2018, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nayab currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 9 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Nayab performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 32 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Nayab shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Nayab in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Nayab in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 70 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Nayab at a glance
Last recorded 2018Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Nayab popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2018–1992
- Peak year (1993)
- 9
- Annual births at peak — across 27 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2018.
70 total births across 27 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1993 with 9 births in a single year.
Nayab by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 32 births that decade — 46% of Nayab's all-time total
Nayab decade highlights
- Peak decade 32 births
- Runner-up 26 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Nayab's strongest decade
32 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 46% of all-time use.
Nayab by state
Where Nayab concentrates geographically — total births since 1992
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 5 | 7.1% |
5 of 70 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 7.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 7.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1992–2018 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.