Nyja
Nyja was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 202 Americans have been recorded with it between 1988 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nyja by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nyja?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,035, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
29 babies in 2001, the peak
Nyja peaked in 2001, when 29 girls were given it, #4,288 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #17,035 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,730 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,608 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,581 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,918 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,131 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,810 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,163 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,288 | 16.1 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,442 | 11.6 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 16 | #6,404 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,608 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,176 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,444 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,409 | 4.0 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,513 | 5.5 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,540 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,256 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nyja a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nyja has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 18 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nyja: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nyja, and how old are they?
An estimated 199 Americans named Nyja and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 23 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 220 people named Nyja (210 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 195 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% above 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).
How common is the spelling Nyja?
Nyja is a less common spelling of Nijah: SSA has recorded 202 Nyja and 1,403 Nijah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 3,249 babies since 1880, Nyja is the third most given (6.2% of them).
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 Nyja
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 Nyja and names like it
- Compare Nyja and NijahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNyja peaked in 2001.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nyja since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Nyja.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nyja alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.