Nyima
Nyima was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,652 among girls’ names; 282 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nyima by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nyima?
#11,652 among girls’ names, 2025
Nyima fell from #9,343 in 2015 to #11,652 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.7 to 5.0 per million.
45 babies in 2006, the peak
Nyima peaked in 2006, when 45 girls were given it, #3,543 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,652 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,822 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,115 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,909 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,850 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,483 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,448 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,777 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,280 | 6.8 |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,343 | 6.7 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 13 | #8,834 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,850 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,346 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,222 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,427 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,969 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,849 | 16.4 |
| 2007 | 23 | #6,036 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 45 | #3,543 | 23.7 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,945 | 11.4 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,398 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nyima a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nyima has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nyima: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nyima, and how old are they?
An estimated 280 Americans named Nyima and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 9 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 485 people named Nyima (392 women and girls, 93 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 242 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times 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 6,459 babies since 1880, Nyima is the fourth most given (4.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 360 babies (2.2%), the third most given that year.
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 Nyima
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 Nyima and names like it
- Compare Nyima and NyomiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNyima peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nyima since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Nyima.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nyima alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.