Nyia
Nyia was last recorded in 2021, when 8 babies were given it; 676 Americans have been recorded with it between 1976 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 Nyia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nyia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,903, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
44 babies in 1999, the peak
Nyia peaked in 1999, when 44 girls were given it, #3,033 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 8 | #11,903 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,890 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,107 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,163 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,761 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,977 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,675 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,849 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,992 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,574 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 6 | #16,426 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,968 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,506 | 11.1 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,266 | 11.4 |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,068 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,212 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,170 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 41 | #3,504 | 22.4 |
| 2002 | 38 | #3,571 | 21.1 |
| 2001 | 43 | #3,239 | 23.9 |
| 2000 | 44 | #3,149 | 24.2 |
| 1999 | 44 | #3,033 | 24.8 |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,546 | 19.2 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,623 | 13.2 |
| 1996 | 27 | #4,020 | 15.4 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,634 | 12.5 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,477 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,902 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,212 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,799 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,884 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,651 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,242 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,253 | 3.5 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,093 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,793 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,201 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,906 | 4.8 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,271 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,473 | 7.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nyia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nyia has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 41 years of records.
Girls and boys named Nyia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nyia, and how old are they?
An estimated 665 Americans named Nyia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 21 and 30. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 702 people named Nyia (652 women and girls, 50 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 656 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 179,219 babies since 1880, Nyia is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,590 babies recorded by SSA was a Nyia (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 Nyia
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 Nyia and names like it
- Compare Nyia and NinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sNyia peaked in 1999.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nyia since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Nyia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nyia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.