Nyir
#8,718 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nyir has been given to 61 babies in the U.S. since 2019. In 2025 it ranked #8,718 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Nyir, 2025
1 in 368,000
Nyir over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Nyir?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 190,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #8,718
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nyir sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nyir. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nyirs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nyir was born before 2023 — so the typical Nyir is around 2 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 86.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 61
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 86.9% of all recorded uses (53).
Is Nyir 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
- −2,004
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +4,787
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 69.2%
- Peak was 2024 (13)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.7% average annual change
Spellings of Nyir
Nyir is not the most common spelling — Neil is, with 45.2% against Nyir's 0.03%.
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.
Nyir by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nyir
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nyir
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.