Nyeema
Nyeema was last recorded in 2023, when 7 babies were given it; 199 Americans have been recorded with it between 1977 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nyeema by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nyeema?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,104, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 2007, the peak
Nyeema peaked in 2007, when 20 girls were given it, #6,746 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 7 | #13,104 | 4.4 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,133 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,664 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,423 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,444 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,757 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,729 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,809 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,740 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,228 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 6 | #16,344 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,098 | 8.5 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,473 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 16 | #8,010 | 8.5 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,746 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,132 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,115 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,075 | 2.7 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,854 | 4.5 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,178 | 2.9 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,072 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,341 | 3.8 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,271 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nyeema a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nyeema has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nyeema: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nyeema, and how old are they?
An estimated 197 Americans named Nyeema and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 183 people named Nyeema (180 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 179 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 1,979 babies since 1880, Nyeema is the fifth most given (10% of them). In 2025 none of their 30 babies recorded by SSA was a Nyeema (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 Nyeema
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 Nyeema and names like it
- Compare Nyeema and NyemaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNyeema peaked in 2007.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Nyeema.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nyeema alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.