Nyjah
#2,918 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nyjah has been given to 1,476 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #2,918 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 73 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 57% boys, 43% girls all-time.
Babies named Nyjah, 2025
1 in 77,100
Nyjah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Nyjah over time
In 2025, Nyjah went to 10% girls and 90% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Nyjah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 77,100
- 43 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 39,700
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,918
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 53,441 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nyjah 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 53,441 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nyjah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nyjahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nyjah was born before 2018 — so the typical Nyjah is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 50.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 847
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 50.6% of all recorded uses (429).
Is Nyjah 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
- −263
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −788
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −577
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.77×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 58.9%
- Peak was 2022 (73)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.5% average annual change
Spellings of Nyjah
Nyjah is not the most common spelling — Noah is, with 98.9% against Nyjah's 0.16%.
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 Nyjah is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Nyjah was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 169,707 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Arizona1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in 100,000
- 3Florida1 in —
- 4Georgia1 in —
- 5North Carolina1 in —
- 6Texas1 in —
- 7Washington1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Nyjah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Nyjah is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Nyjah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 975,768 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2North Carolina1 in —
- 3New York1 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. Nyjah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Nyjah around the world
Where Nyjah 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 & Wales2022–2023#4,108in 2023
- Canada2014–2023#2,747in 2023
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.
Nyjah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Nyjah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nyjah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.