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Naya

#813 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Nia

Naya has been given to 6,563 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #813 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 446 recorded.

Babies named Naya, 2025

1 in 9,870

Naya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Naya: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Nia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Naya means

Naya is a variant of Nia.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Naya is a variant of Nia. Nia has more than one origin or interpretation.

Origin, language, and formation

Naya is used in Asturian and Danish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nia and Anaya.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Asturian, Naya is pronounced /ˈnaʝa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,563 girls were recorded with the name Naya between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 446 in 2021; its best national rank was #668 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #754 in 2020 to #813 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #778 in 2015 to #813 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Naya?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,870
336 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,780
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#813
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,840 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Naya sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,840 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Naya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nayas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Naya was born before 2016 — so the typical Naya is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
38.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,563
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 38.7% of all recorded uses (2,541).

Is Naya rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+86
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−59
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−35
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.93×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
75.3%
Peak was 2021 (446)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#668
2021

Spellings of Naya

Naya is not the most common spelling — Sara is, with 9.8% against Naya's 0.15%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Naya is used

Across 2016–2025, Naya was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 2,381 girls, against 1 in 4,121 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in 33,333).

342 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 2,381
  2. 2District of Columbia1 in 2,564
  3. 3Michigan1 in 2,632
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 2,778
  5. 5Illinois1 in 2,941
  6. 6Nevada1 in 2,941
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 3,226
  8. 8Florida1 in 3,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Naya is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 58% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Naya around the world

Where Naya ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2025
    #719
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2012–2025
    #632
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2025–2025
    #290
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2016–2025
    #718
    in 2025
  • France
    1990–2025
    #201
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #309
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1977–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Naya

People whose public names include Naya, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Naya by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#813
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 59
Best rank ever
#668
2021
Peak year
2021
446 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,563
Count in 2025
336

Names similar to Naya

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Naya

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Naya, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Naya

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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