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Nyasia

#3,958 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Nyasia has been given to 5,413 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #3,958 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 344 recorded.

Babies named Nyasia, 2025

1 in 89,600

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nyasia: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nyasia means

Nyasia is a given name.

The naming story behind Nyasia

Wikidata records Nyasia as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q116367326, 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, 5,413 girls were recorded with the name Nyasia between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 344 in 2006; its best national rank was #795 in 2006.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,955 in 2020 to #3,958 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,162 in 2015 to #3,958 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 Nyasia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 89,600
37 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 43,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,958
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
62,106 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nyasia 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 62,106 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nyasia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nyasias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nyasia was born before 2005 — so the typical Nyasia is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
50.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
72.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,413
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 50.6% of all recorded uses (2,740).

Is Nyasia 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
+783
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,003
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,796
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.42×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.8%
Peak was 2006 (344)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#795
2006

Spellings of Nyasia

Nyasia is not the most common spelling — Nadia is, with 32.3% against Nyasia's 3.7%.

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 Nyasia is used

Across 2016–2025, Nyasia was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 30,533 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

18 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in 12,500
  2. 2Florida1 in 16,667
  3. 3Illinois1 in 20,000
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 25,000
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 25,000
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 33,333
  7. 7Georgia1 in 50,000
  8. 8New York1 in 100,000

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.

Nyasia around the world

Where Nyasia 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
    2011–2015
    #3,615
    in 2015
  • Canada
    2007–2011
    #3,211
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Nyasia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,958
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,003
Best rank ever
#795
2006
Peak year
2006
344 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,413
Count in 2025
37

Names similar to Nyasia

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

DeasiaElysiaNyahAlisiaAlesiaAlysiaDasiaAlaysiaAlyssiaStasiaTyasiaCassiaElisiaTasiaNyaMyasiaKeasiaAlasiaAlessiaNyannaLeasiaAysiaAnasiaNyaira

Names with a curve like Nyasia

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

MakailaAbigaleAbagailAbigayleJalynnJoselineShayleeCaleighIyanaKaylahEstefaniSavana

Sibling names for Nyasia

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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