Nyssa
Nyssa was given to 18 girls in 2025, #6,488 among girls’ names; 1,830 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,800 Americans named Nyssa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 18 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nyssa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nyssa mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Nyssa is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nyssa?
#6,488 among girls’ names, 2025
Nyssa fell from #5,619 in 2015 to #6,488 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 13.4 to 11.2 per million.
110 babies in 2003, the peak
Nyssa peaked in 2003, when 110 girls were given it, #1,728 among girls’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,488 | 11.2 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,814 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,599 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,204 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,108 | 12.2 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,443 | 14.2 |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,131 | 15.5 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,321 | 19.4 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,129 | 20.9 |
| 2016 | 40 | #3,836 | 22.6 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,619 | 13.4 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,271 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,785 | 13.1 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,368 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,884 | 16.5 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,553 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,449 | 18.5 |
| 2008 | 40 | #3,988 | 21.2 |
| 2007 | 45 | #3,643 | 23.4 |
| 2006 | 58 | #2,966 | 30.5 |
| 2005 | 65 | #2,619 | 35.2 |
| 2004 | 76 | #2,303 | 41.4 |
| 2003 | 110 | #1,728 | 60.2 |
| 2002 | 73 | #2,255 | 40.6 |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,761 | 19.4 |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,318 | 22.6 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,981 | 12.4 |
| 1998 | 40 | #3,155 | 22.6 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,859 | 24.7 |
| 1996 | 38 | #3,124 | 21.7 |
| 1995 | 45 | #2,710 | 25.6 |
| 1994 | 43 | #2,829 | 24.1 |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,862 | 23.2 |
| 1992 | 41 | #2,901 | 22.2 |
| 1991 | 53 | #2,403 | 28.3 |
| 1990 | 46 | #2,588 | 24.2 |
| 1989 | 56 | #2,181 | 30.4 |
| 1988 | 48 | #2,315 | 27.0 |
| 1987 | 57 | #1,978 | 32.8 |
| 1986 | 52 | #2,069 | 30.3 |
| 1985 | 59 | #1,893 | 34.3 |
| 1984 | 52 | #1,981 | 30.9 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,639 | 13.2 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,234 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,911 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,800 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,318 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,258 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,353 | 5.2 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,937 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,196 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,344 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,212 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,841 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nyssa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nyssa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nyssa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nyssa, and how old are they?
1,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,830 Americans ever recorded as Nyssa. The median Nyssa alive today is 25 years old; half are between 18 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 1,569 people named Nyssa (1,566 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,704 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 75 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 655 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 754 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 313 |
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 Nyssa born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 5 | #2,335 | 0.2× |
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 Nyssa 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 11,628 babies since 1880, Nyssa is the second most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 112 babies (16%), the third 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 Nyssa
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 Nyssa and names like it
- Compare Nyssa and NyasiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNyssa peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nyssa since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Nyssa.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nyssa alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.