Nya
Nya was given to 62 girls in 2025, #2,767 among girls’ names; 6,006 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,940 Americans named Nya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 13 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nya?
#2,767 among girls’ names, 2025
Nya fell from #1,285 in 2015 to #2,767 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.11 to 0.04 per 1,000.
408 babies in 2001, the peak
Nya peaked in 2001, when 408 girls were given it, #618 among girls’ names. The 62 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 62 | #2,767 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 94 | #2,066 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 101 | #1,959 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 114 | #1,803 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 94 | #2,055 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 102 | #1,890 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 135 | #1,584 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 119 | #1,736 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 123 | #1,735 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 138 | #1,603 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 189 | #1,285 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 195 | #1,245 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 174 | #1,343 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 196 | #1,241 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 142 | #1,553 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 170 | #1,371 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 186 | #1,306 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 221 | #1,163 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 248 | #1,057 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 272 | #965 | 0.14 |
| 2005 | 275 | #909 | 0.15 |
| 2004 | 355 | #741 | 0.19 |
| 2003 | 375 | #698 | 0.21 |
| 2002 | 397 | #642 | 0.22 |
| 2001 | 408 | #618 | 0.23 |
| 2000 | 292 | #788 | 0.16 |
| 1999 | 207 | #992 | 0.12 |
| 1998 | 127 | #1,363 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 70 | #2,036 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 53 | #2,441 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 58 | #2,299 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 46 | #2,689 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,754 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,190 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,326 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,470 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,418 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,973 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,806 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,037 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,251 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,441 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,564 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,441 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,796 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,460 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,643 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,270 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,748 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,067 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,758 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,938 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,211 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,701 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nya, and how old are they?
5,940 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,006 Americans ever recorded as Nya. The median Nya alive today is 20 years old; half are between 13 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 5,258 people named Nya (5,170 women and girls, 88 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,415 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 71 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 342 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,900 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,630 |
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 Nya born?
The states with the most babies named Nya are California, Texas and Pennsylvania, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 12 | #1,817 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 6 | #3,201 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,563 | 0.8× |
Where Nya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nya is most over-represented in Maryland: since 1970 it was given 1.4 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 Nya 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 181,544 babies since 1880, Nya is the third most given (3.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 62 of their 1,639 babies (3.8%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Nya
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 Nya and names like it
- Compare Nya and NinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNya peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nya since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Nya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.