Girls' name · since 1999
Nyrah
168 babies named Nyrah in U.S. Social Security records since 1999, with the highest year being 2020. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #21,637 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #8,145 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 168
- born since 1999
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Nyrah is the #8145 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 168 recorded since 1999.
Nyrah has 168 recorded births among girls since 1999, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #8145 as of the latest data, more common than 53% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1999 to 2025.
- #21,637 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #8,145 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 168 born since 1999
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Nyrah ranks #21,637 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #8,145 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 168 born since 1999, peaking in the 2020s.
- #21,637 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #8,145 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 168
- born since 1999
- 2020s
- peak decade
Nyrah's 168 recorded births place it above 70.07% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Nyrah compares
168 34th 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
Nyrah's all-time total is 55% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Nyrah | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 168 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 17 | 21 | 19,840 |
Nyrah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Nyrah's full recorded timeline at 2015, 66% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 34% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2001, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2020 peak of 17 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Nyrah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1999–2025
- Peak year (2020)
- 17
- Annual births at peak, across 27 years of records
Nyrah by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (84 births, 50% of the file).
2020s was Nyrah's strongest decade.
84 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 50% of all-time use.
Nyrah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s 7
1990s
7 births
- 2000s 23
2000s
23 births
- 2010s
2010s
54 births
- 2020s
2020s
84 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 84 births (50% 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, 1999–2025 (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 Nyrah 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.