Nayana
Nayana was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,782 among girls’ names; 631 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nayana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nayana?
#7,782 among girls’ names, 2025
Nayana fell from #7,183 in 2015 to #7,782 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.5 to 8.7 per million.
44 babies in 2008, the peak
Nayana peaked in 2008, when 44 girls were given it, #3,691 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 32% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,782 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,329 | 11.7 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,890 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,186 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,535 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,552 | 11.1 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,929 | 12.5 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,441 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 17 | #7,013 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,137 | 9.6 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #7,183 | 9.5 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,144 | 11.8 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,264 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,514 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,881 | 13.1 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,935 | 16.3 |
| 2009 | 23 | #6,036 | 12.5 |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,691 | 23.3 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,444 | 17.7 |
| 2006 | 38 | #3,972 | 20.0 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,456 | 16.8 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,245 | 18.0 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,898 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,330 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,534 | 9.4 |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,045 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,152 | 11.8 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,409 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,158 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,337 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nayana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nayana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nayana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nayana, and how old are they?
An estimated 625 Americans named Nayana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 10 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,465 people named Nayana (1,462 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 547 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 12,464 babies since 1880, Nayana is the fifth most given (5.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 437 babies (3.2%), again the fifth 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 Nayana
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 Nayana and names like it
- Compare Nayana and NayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNayana peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nayana since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Nayana.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nayana alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.