Nyaira
Nyaira was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,220 among girls’ names; 258 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nyaira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nyaira?
#8,220 among girls’ names, 2025
Nyaira rose from #15,908 in 2015 to #8,220 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.4 to 8.1 per million.
20 babies in 2007, the peak
Nyaira peaked in 2007, when 20 girls were given it, #6,744 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 65% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,220 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,875 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,131 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,835 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,131 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,885 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,974 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,441 | 4.1 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,908 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,739 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 13 | #8,927 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,982 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,097 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,280 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,768 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,606 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,744 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,158 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,404 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,591 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,881 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,898 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,769 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,991 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nyaira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nyaira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nyaira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nyaira, and how old are they?
An estimated 256 Americans named Nyaira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 189 people named Nyaira (186 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 208 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,254 babies since 1880, Nyaira is the sixth most given (4.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 449 babies (2.9%), the seventh 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 Nyaira
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 Nyaira and names like it
- Compare Nyaira and NyraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNyaira peaked in 2007.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Nyaira.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nyaira alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.