Nyoka
Nyoka was last recorded in 2007, when 5 babies were given it; 946 Americans have been recorded with it between 1941 and 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nyoka by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nyoka?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #19,750, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
60 babies in 1943, the peak
Nyoka peaked in 1943, when 60 girls were given it, #1,034 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 5 | #19,750 | 2.6 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,259 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,851 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,842 | 3.3 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,855 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,599 | 5.2 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,089 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,407 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,514 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,343 | 3.8 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 8 | #9,973 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,742 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,385 | 4.3 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,240 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,460 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,264 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,930 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,065 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,122 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,491 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,151 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,867 | 12.5 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,199 | 11.1 |
| 1977 | 18 | #4,014 | 11.7 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,777 | 12.3 |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,478 | 13.7 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,171 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 31 | #2,441 | 21.3 |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,650 | 17.7 |
| 1971 | 24 | #2,923 | 14.4 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,702 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,352 | 7.1 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,722 | 8.5 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,347 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,165 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,850 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,430 | 7.8 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,944 | 6.1 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,556 | 6.9 |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,058 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,766 | 5.9 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,498 | 6.5 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,119 | 4.9 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,453 | 6.5 |
| 1955 | 25 | #2,206 | 12.8 |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,860 | 8.2 |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,573 | 9.6 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,888 | 8.1 |
| 1951 | 29 | #1,829 | 16.1 |
| 1950 | 23 | #2,037 | 13.4 |
| 1949 | 22 | #2,114 | 12.9 |
| 1948 | 37 | #1,541 | 21.8 |
| 1947 | 33 | #1,686 | 18.6 |
| 1946 | 20 | #2,137 | 12.7 |
| 1945 | 26 | #1,650 | 19.9 |
| 1944 | 28 | #1,567 | 21.1 |
| 1943 | 60 | #1,034 | 43.0 |
| 1942 | 45 | #1,190 | 33.3 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,887 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nyoka a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nyoka has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nyoka: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nyoka, and how old are they?
An estimated 760 Americans named Nyoka and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (80% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 46 and 75. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 828 people named Nyoka (828 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 818 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 4,964 babies since 1880, Nyoka is the third most given (19% of them). In 2025 none of their 50 babies recorded by SSA was a Nyoka (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.
More about Nyoka and names like it
- Compare Nyoka and NikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sNyoka peaked in 1943.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nyoka since 1910.
- The top names of 1943The year the most babies were named Nyoka.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Nyoka alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with NMost given first.