Nyana
Nyana was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,697 among girls’ names; 477 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nyana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nyana?
#10,697 among girls’ names, 2025
Nyana fell from #10,672 in 2015 to #10,697 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born held at 5.6 per million.
29 babies in 2007, the peak
Nyana peaked in 2007, when 29 girls were given it, #5,060 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,697 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,860 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,132 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,998 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,853 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,875 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,276 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 12 | #9,015 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,776 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,915 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,672 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,397 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,412 | 11.4 |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,932 | 16.5 |
| 2011 | 18 | #7,044 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,125 | 12.4 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,500 | 14.2 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,505 | 11.1 |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,060 | 15.1 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,188 | 14.2 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,800 | 15.2 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,432 | 10.3 |
| 2003 | 25 | #5,051 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,609 | 9.5 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,539 | 9.4 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,407 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,296 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,891 | 6.8 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,996 | 3.4 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,463 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nyana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nyana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nyana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nyana, and how old are they?
An estimated 471 Americans named Nyana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 372 people named Nyana (372 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 412 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 147,740 babies since 1880, Nyana is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 1,128 babies (<1%), the sixth 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 Nyana
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 Nyana and names like it
- Compare Nyana and NinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNyana peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nyana since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Nyana.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nyana alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.