Girls' name · since 1975
Nyota
Nyota has 120 recorded births since 1975 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2025 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #25,135 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #5,453 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 120
- born since 1975
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Nyota is the #5453 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 120 recorded since 1975.
Social Security Administration records show Nyota recorded 120 times among girls since 1975, holding rank #5453 nationally today, ahead of 68% of girls, peaking in the 2020s. This profile derives year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1975 to 2025.
- #25,135 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #5,453 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 120 born since 1975
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Nyota ranks #25,135 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #5,453 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 120 born since 1975, peaking in the 2020s.
- #25,135 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #5,453 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 120
- born since 1975
- 2020s
- peak decade
Nyota's 120 recorded births place it above 65.21% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Nyota compares
120 28th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Nyota's all-time total is 68% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Nyota | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 120 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 23 | 21 | 19,840 |
Nyota's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Nyota's full recorded timeline at 2019, 71% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 29% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 1975, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2025 peak of 23 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Nyota popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1975–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 23
- Annual births at peak, across 51 years of records
Nyota by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (77 births, 64% of the file).
2020s was Nyota's strongest decade.
77 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 64% of all-time use.
Nyota births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 19
1970s
19 births
- 2010s 24
2010s
24 births
- 2020s
2020s
77 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 77 births (64% of all-time use).
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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, 1975–2025 (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 Nyota 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.