Nyra
Nyra was given to 147 girls in 2025, #1,465 among girls’ names; 2,413 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,330 Americans named Nyra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 8.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nyra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nyra?
#1,465 among girls’ names, 2025
Nyra rose from #4,564 in 2015 to #1,465 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 17.4 to 91.5 per million.
324 babies in 2021, the peak
Nyra peaked in 2021, when 324 girls were given it, #851 among girls’ names. The 147 births of 2025 are 45% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 147 | #1,465 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 192 | #1,227 | 0.12 |
| 2023 | 263 | #979 | 0.16 |
| 2022 | 273 | #975 | 0.17 |
| 2021 | 324 | #851 | 0.20 |
| 2020 | 239 | #1,049 | 0.15 |
| 2019 | 165 | #1,370 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 167 | #1,355 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 98 | #2,014 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 41 | #3,762 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #4,564 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,939 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,073 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,043 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,700 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,150 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,829 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,853 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,416 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,138 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,222 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,594 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,231 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,046 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,223 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,993 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,980 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,984 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,452 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,901 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,409 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,853 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,033 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,512 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,627 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,464 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,080 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,918 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,274 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,676 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,107 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,793 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,821 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,836 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,534 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,488 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,917 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,381 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,068 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,370 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,901 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,803 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,920 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,868 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,892 | under 0.01 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,819 | under 0.01 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,720 | under 0.01 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,169 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 16 | #2,027 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,697 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,589 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,332 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,049 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nyra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nyra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nyra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nyra, and how old are they?
2,330 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,413 Americans ever recorded as Nyra. The median Nyra alive today is 5 years old; half are between 3 and 8.
The 2020 Census counted 970 people named Nyra (962 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 972 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 55 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 48 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 52 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 202 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,960 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Nyra born?
The states with the most babies named Nyra are California, Texas and New Jersey, with 38% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 18 | #1,345 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 13 | #1,765 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 9 | #829 | 2.2× |
| New York | 9 | #1,493 | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 9 | #824 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,517 | 0.4× |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #669 | 1.0× |
| Washington | 7 | #881 | 1.5× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,499 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,365 | 0.8× |
Where Nyra is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nyra is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1914 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Nyra with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,635 babies since 1880, Nyra is the most given (32% of them). In 2025 it was given to 147 of their 419 babies (35%), again the most given.
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 Nyra
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 Nyra and names like it
- Compare Nyra and NyreeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sNyra peaked in 2021.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nyra since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Nyra.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Nyra alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.