Nyah
Nyah was given to 80 girls in 2025, #2,293 among girls’ names; 5,465 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,410 Americans named Nyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 12 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nyah?
#2,293 among girls’ names, 2025
Nyah fell from #1,378 in 2015 to #2,293 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 96.4 to 49.8 per million.
552 babies in 2001, the peak
Nyah peaked in 2001, when 552 babies were given it (547 girls, #504 among girls’ names). The 80 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 80 | #2,293 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 87 | #2,192 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 98 | #2,015 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 120 | #1,740 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 122 | #1,706 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 105 | #1,857 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 124 | #1,695 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 133 | #1,614 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 162 | #1,413 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 145 | #1,549 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 172 | #1,378 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 193 | #1,256 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 201 | #1,197 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 191 | #1,263 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 150 | #1,495 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 217 | #1,131 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 216 | #1,166 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 240 | #1,088 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 239 | #1,091 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 196 | #1,232 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 197 | #1,172 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 223 | #1,041 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 304 | #813 | 0.17 |
| 2002 | 416 | #615 | 0.23 |
| 2001 | 547 | #504 | 0.30 |
| 2000 | 290 | #793 | 0.16 |
| 1999 | 55 | #2,595 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 59 | #2,384 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,871 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,795 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,612 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,903 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,166 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,183 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,130 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,703 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,383 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,252 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,979 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,754 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,461 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nyah has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 41 years of records.
Girls and boys named Nyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nyah, and how old are they?
5,410 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,465 Americans ever recorded as Nyah. The median Nyah alive today is 18 years old; half are between 12 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 4,427 people named Nyah (4,379 women and girls, 48 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,840 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 16 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 129 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,540 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,730 |
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 Nyah born?
The states with the most babies named Nyah are Texas, California and New York, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #2,344 | 0.8× |
| California | 8 | #2,437 | 0.9× |
| New York | 5 | #2,334 | 1.2× |
Where Nyah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nyah is most over-represented in Florida: since 1980 it was given 1.2 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 Nyah 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 47,588 babies since 1880, Nyah is the third most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 80 of their 688 babies (12%), the second 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 Nyah
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 Nyah and names like it
- Compare Nyah and NiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNyah peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Nyah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nyah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.