Nysa
Nysa was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,302 among girls’ names; 384 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nysa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nysa mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Nysa is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nysa?
#9,302 among girls’ names, 2025
Nysa fell from #5,788 in 2015 to #9,302 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.9 to 6.8 per million.
29 babies in 2016, the peak
Nysa peaked in 2016, when 29 girls were given it, #4,813 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,302 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,880 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,841 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,203 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,517 | 14.0 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,262 | 11.8 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,355 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,448 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,465 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,813 | 16.4 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,788 | 12.9 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,377 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,720 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,241 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,577 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,919 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,366 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,653 | 9.0 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,594 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,069 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,743 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,119 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,918 | 6.6 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,235 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,782 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,880 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nysa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nysa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nysa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nysa, and how old are they?
An estimated 381 Americans named Nysa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 327 people named Nysa (321 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 297 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Nysa?
Nysa is a less common spelling of Nyssa: SSA has recorded 384 Nysa and 1,830 Nyssa since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 11,016 babies since 1880, Nysa is the fifth most given (3.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 88 babies (13%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Nysa
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 Nysa and names like it
- Compare Nysa and NyssaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sNysa peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nysa since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Nysa.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Nysa alive today were born 2013-2025.
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