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Nya

#2,767 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Nya has been given to 6,006 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #2,767 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 408 recorded.

Babies named Nya, 2025

1 in 53,500

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nya: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nya means

Nya is a given name.

The naming story behind Nya

Wikidata records Nya as a given name. The entity identifier is Q132229867, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,006 girls were recorded with the name Nya between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 408 in 2001; its best national rank was #618 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,890 in 2020 to #2,767 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,285 in 2015 to #2,767 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.

How common is Nya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 53,500
62 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 25,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,767
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
37,064 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nya 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 37,064 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nya was born before 2006 — so the typical Nya is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
50.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,006
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 50.4% of all recorded uses (3,029).

Is Nya 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
−701
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−877
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,482
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.33×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
15.2%
Peak was 2001 (408)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#618
2001

Where Nya is used

Across 2016–2025, Nya was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 17,083 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 50,000).

29 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 11,111
  2. 2Florida1 in 14,286
  3. 3Illinois1 in 14,286
  4. 4Texas1 in 14,286
  5. 5Arizona1 in 16,667
  6. 6Colorado1 in 20,000
  7. 7Nevada1 in 20,000
  8. 8New York1 in 20,000

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.

Nya around the world

Where Nya 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
    1998–2025
    #1,719
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2015–2024
    #638
    in 2024
  • France
    2004–2025
    #2,831
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #1,399
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2001–2012
    #563
    in 2012

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

Nya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,767
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 877
Best rank ever
#618
2001
Peak year
2001
408 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,006
Count in 2025
62

Names similar to Nya

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

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Names with a curve like Nya

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

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Sibling names for Nya

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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