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Nyasha

Girls' name

Mercy

Nyasha has been given to 645 babies in the U.S. since 1971. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1992, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Nyasha, 2021

1 in 678,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nyasha: meaning, origin, and history

Mercy

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nyasha means

Nyasha means “mercy”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Nyasha is used in Shona.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 645 girls were recorded with the name Nyasha between 1971 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 32 in 1992; its best national rank was #3,467 in 1995.

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 Nyasha?

Nyasha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nyasha 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 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nyasha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nyashas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nyasha was born before 1995 — so the typical Nyasha is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
38.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
44.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
645
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 38.0% of all recorded uses (245).

Is Nyasha 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
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1992 (32)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,467
1995

Spellings of Nyasha

Nyasha is not the most common spelling — Natasha is, with 39.3% against Nyasha's 0.26%.

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 Nyasha is used

Across 1910–2025, Nyasha was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 282,888 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3New Jersey1 in —

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. Nyasha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nyasha around the world

Where Nyasha 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
    2000–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2008–2008
    #2,486
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    2007–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Nyasha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,467
1995
Peak year
1992
32 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
645
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nyasha

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

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Sibling names for Nyasha

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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