Niyanna
Niyanna was last recorded in 2024, when 8 babies were given it; 310 Americans have been recorded with it between 1997 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Niyanna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Niyanna?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,869, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
29 babies in 2008, the peak
Niyanna peaked in 2008, when 29 girls were given it, #5,105 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8 | #11,869 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,090 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,496 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,849 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,801 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,134 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,195 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,420 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,638 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,669 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 15 | #7,963 | 8.4 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,066 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,703 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,282 | 11.9 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,184 | 8.4 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,845 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,105 | 15.3 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,400 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,128 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,107 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,122 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,524 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,843 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,900 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,152 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,431 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Niyanna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Niyanna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Niyanna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Niyanna, and how old are they?
An estimated 307 Americans named Niyanna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 10 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 202 people named Niyanna (201 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 261 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 2,229 babies since 1880, Niyanna is the fourth most given (14% of them). In 2025 none of their 44 babies recorded by SSA was a Niyanna (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Niyanna
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 Niyanna and names like it
- Compare Niyanna and NyanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNiyanna peaked in 2008.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Niyanna since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Niyanna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Niyanna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.