Nyema
Nyema was given to 16 girls in 2025, #7,055 among girls’ names; 684 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nyema by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nyema?
#7,055 among girls’ names, 2025
Nyema rose from #10,674 in 2015 to #7,055 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.6 to 10.0 per million.
50 babies in 2006, the peak
Nyema peaked in 2006, when 50 girls were given it, #3,297 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 32% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,055 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,400 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,949 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,906 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,544 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,473 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,482 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 12 | #9,016 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,508 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,842 | 10.2 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,674 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,991 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,658 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,707 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,506 | 11.4 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,369 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,166 | 20.1 |
| 2008 | 46 | #3,570 | 24.3 |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,707 | 22.9 |
| 2006 | 50 | #3,297 | 26.3 |
| 2005 | 43 | #3,483 | 23.3 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,533 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,901 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,903 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,992 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,305 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,902 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,739 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,961 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,918 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,458 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,927 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,277 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,972 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,883 | 4.2 |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,035 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,511 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,261 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,082 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,625 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,111 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,908 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,200 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,615 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,812 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,916 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,392 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,436 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nyema a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nyema has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nyema: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nyema, and how old are they?
An estimated 674 Americans named Nyema and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 13 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 499 people named Nyema (467 women and girls, 32 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 598 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 6,328 babies since 1880, Nyema is the second most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 360 babies (4.4%), again the second most given.
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 Nyema
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 Nyema and names like it
- Compare Nyema and NyomiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNyema peaked in 2006.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nyema since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Nyema.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nyema alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.