Girls' name · since 1981
Nyna
184 babies named Nyna in U.S. Social Security records since 1981, with the highest year being 2007. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #20,677 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 184
- born since 1981
- 2010s
- peak decade
Nyna is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 184 have been recorded since 1981.
Nyna has 184 recorded births among girls since 1981, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1981 to 2023.
- #20,677 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 184 born since 1981
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Nyna ranks #20,677 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 184 born since 1981, peaking in the 2010s.
- #20,677 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 184
- born since 1981
- 2010s
- peak decade
Nyna's 184 recorded births place it above 71.39% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Nyna's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Nyna's full recorded timeline at 2009, 50% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 50% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1981, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2007 peak of 16 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Nyna popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1981–2023
- Peak year (2007)
- 16
- Annual births at peak, across 43 years of records
Nyna by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (66 births, 36% of the file).
2010s was Nyna's strongest decade.
66 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 36% of all-time use.
Nyna births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s 21
1980s
21 births
- 1990s 17
1990s
17 births
- 2000s
2000s
63 births
- 2010s
2010s
66 births
- 2020s 17
2020s
17 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 66 births (36% of all-time use).
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- Nyna's decade-level peak was the 2010s (66 total births); usage has since declined to 17 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Nyna: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2007)
Similar record span (~42 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1981–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Nyna draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.