Naysa
Naysa was given to 25 girls in 2025, #5,187 among girls’ names; 561 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Naysa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Naysa?
#5,187 among girls’ names, 2025
Naysa rose from #5,976 in 2015 to #5,187 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 12.3 to 15.6 per million.
33 babies in 2005, the peak
Naysa peaked in 2005, when 33 girls were given it, #4,239 among girls’ names. The 25 births of 2025 are 76% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,187 | 15.6 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,798 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,425 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 30 | #4,644 | 18.3 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,536 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,125 | 9.9 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,350 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,279 | 14.7 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,293 | 14.5 |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,704 | 16.9 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #5,976 | 12.3 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,747 | 12.9 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,438 | 14.2 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,571 | 18.2 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,493 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,422 | 9.6 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,485 | 11.4 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,314 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,741 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,547 | 16.8 |
| 2005 | 33 | #4,239 | 17.9 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,166 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,545 | 12.0 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,830 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,736 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,475 | 3.3 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,074 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,024 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Naysa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Naysa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Naysa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Naysa, and how old are they?
An estimated 557 Americans named Naysa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 472 people named Naysa (469 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 453 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
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 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,482 babies since 1880, Naysa is the second most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 105 babies (24%), again the second 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 Naysa
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 Naysa and names like it
- Compare Naysa and NasyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNaysa peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Naysa since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Naysa.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Naysa alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.