Novayah

#14,464 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Novayah has been given to 12 babies in the U.S. since 2020. In 2025 it ranked #14,464 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Novayah, 2025

1 in 553,000

Novayah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Novayah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,464
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Novayah 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Novayah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Novayahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Novayah was born before 2020 — so the typical Novayah is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
12
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2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (12).

Is Novayah 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+195
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2020 (6)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#14,464
2025

Spellings of Novayah

Novayah is not the most common spelling — Novah is, with 49.5% against Novayah's 0.17%.

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.

Novayah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,464
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 195
Best rank ever
#14,464
2025
Peak year
2020
6 that year
First recorded
2020
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
12
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Novayah

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

Sibling names for Novayah

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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