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Nyah

#2,293 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Nyah has been given to 5,465 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #2,293 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 547 recorded.

Babies named Nyah, 2025

1 in 41,400

Nyah over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nyah: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nyah means

Nyah is a given name.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,460 girls were recorded with the name Nyah between 1980 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 547 in 2001; its best national rank was #504 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,857 in 2020 to #2,293 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,378 in 2015 to #2,293 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Nyah between 2001 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2001; its best national rank was #11,810 in 2001.

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 Nyah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 41,400
80 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 20,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,293
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
28,725 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nyah 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 28,725 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nyahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nyah was born before 2008 — so the typical Nyah is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
52.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,460
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 52.5% of all recorded uses (2,868).

Is Nyah 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
−101
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−436
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−915
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.47×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
14.6%
Peak was 2001 (547)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#504
2001

Spellings of Nyah

Nyah is not the most common spelling — Leah is, with 34.8% against Nyah's 0.74%.

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 Nyah is used

Across 2016–2025, Nyah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 15,161 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 50,000).

210 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 10,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 10,000
  3. 3Washington1 in 10,000
  4. 4Utah1 in 11,111
  5. 5New York1 in 12,500
  6. 6Texas1 in 14,286
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 16,667
  8. 8Arizona1 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.

Nyah around the world

Where Nyah 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
    #1,028
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2001–2023
    #630
    in 2023
  • Northern Ireland
    2005–2016
    #440
    in 2016
  • Ireland
    2001–2022
    #905
    in 2022
  • France
    2001–2025
    #3,550
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #1,349
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2001–2013
    #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.

Nyah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,293
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 436
Best rank ever
#504
2001
Peak year
2001
547 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,460
Count in 2025
80

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,810
2001
Peak year
2001
5 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nyah

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

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Names with a curve like Nyah

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

HailieLitzyShreyaIyannaJailynCitlaliTrinitiIyanaKiyaKarimeBrisaKaya

Sibling names for Nyah

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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