Nyasha
Nyasha was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 645 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nyasha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nyasha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,028, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
32 babies in 1992, the peak
Nyasha peaked in 1992, when 32 girls were given it, #3,469 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #17,028 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,886 | 3.1 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,150 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,772 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,561 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,125 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,967 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,145 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,826 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,976 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 20 | #6,745 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,293 | 11.0 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,220 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,142 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,809 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,056 | 10.6 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,240 | 10.0 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,102 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,836 | 10.1 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,899 | 12.5 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,352 | 10.9 |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,696 | 17.1 |
| 1995 | 32 | #3,467 | 18.2 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,476 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,847 | 15.5 |
| 1992 | 32 | #3,469 | 17.4 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,599 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,999 | 10.0 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,751 | 14.6 |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,034 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,830 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,241 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,796 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,929 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,091 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,907 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,667 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,208 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,644 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,914 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,706 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,817 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,843 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,675 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,195 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,190 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,033 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nyasha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nyasha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nyasha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nyasha, and how old are they?
An estimated 630 Americans named Nyasha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 23 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 705 people named Nyasha (645 women and girls, 60 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 625 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 8,962 babies since 1880, Nyasha is the fourth most given (7.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 28 babies recorded by SSA was a Nyasha (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 Nyasha
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 Nyasha and names like it
- Compare Nyasha and NishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sNyasha peaked in 1992.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nyasha since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Nyasha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Nyasha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.