Nyesha
Nyesha was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,470 among girls’ names; 1,537 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,500 Americans named Nyesha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 27 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nyesha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nyesha?
#14,470 among girls’ names, 2025
Nyesha entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #14,470 in 2025.
71 babies in 1993, the peak
Nyesha peaked in 1993, when 71 girls were given it, #1,978 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,470 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,665 | 3.7 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,498 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,450 | 4.6 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,518 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,231 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,562 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,518 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,146 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,271 | 5.4 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 19 | #7,004 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,490 | 10.9 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,189 | 14.2 |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,071 | 14.1 |
| 2004 | 35 | #4,066 | 19.1 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,497 | 15.9 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,403 | 12.2 |
| 2001 | 47 | #3,033 | 26.1 |
| 2000 | 58 | #2,584 | 31.9 |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,973 | 25.4 |
| 1998 | 48 | #2,789 | 27.2 |
| 1997 | 46 | #2,721 | 26.4 |
| 1996 | 67 | #2,078 | 38.2 |
| 1995 | 70 | #1,967 | 39.8 |
| 1994 | 50 | #2,524 | 28.0 |
| 1993 | 71 | #1,978 | 39.2 |
| 1992 | 58 | #2,285 | 31.5 |
| 1991 | 70 | #1,984 | 37.3 |
| 1990 | 59 | #2,188 | 31.1 |
| 1989 | 46 | #2,509 | 25.0 |
| 1988 | 43 | #2,512 | 24.1 |
| 1987 | 48 | #2,258 | 27.6 |
| 1986 | 42 | #2,403 | 24.5 |
| 1985 | 42 | #2,390 | 24.4 |
| 1984 | 37 | #2,555 | 22.0 |
| 1983 | 38 | #2,464 | 22.7 |
| 1982 | 48 | #2,141 | 28.3 |
| 1981 | 38 | #2,517 | 22.8 |
| 1980 | 39 | #2,474 | 23.5 |
| 1979 | 35 | #2,612 | 21.8 |
| 1978 | 37 | #2,417 | 24.2 |
| 1977 | 31 | #2,702 | 20.2 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,280 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,068 | 8.2 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,642 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,460 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,939 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,419 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nyesha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nyesha 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 Nyesha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nyesha, and how old are they?
1,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,537 Americans ever recorded as Nyesha. The median Nyesha alive today is 33 years old; half are between 27 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 1,163 people named Nyesha (1,163 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,498 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 195 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 805 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 461 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 37 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Nyesha born?
The states with the most babies named Nyesha are New York, California and New Jersey, with 56% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 122 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| California | 64 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 31 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 26 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 25 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 24 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 22 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 20 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 13 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Nyesha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nyesha is most over-represented in New York: since 1971 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Nyesha with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 8,962 babies since 1880, Nyesha is the third most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 28 babies (21%), again the third 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 Nyesha
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 Nyesha and names like it
- Compare Nyesha and NishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sNyesha peaked in 1993.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nyesha since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Nyesha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Nyesha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.