Nyoka
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nyoka has been given to 946 babies in the U.S. since 1941. 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 1943, with 60 recorded.
Babies named Nyoka, 2007
1 in 800,000
Nyoka 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Nyoka?
Nyoka had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2007
- 1 in 800,000
- 5 of 3,997,748 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 384,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2007
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 554,207 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nyoka sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2007 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 554,207 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nyoka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nyokas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nyoka was born before 1962 — so the typical Nyoka is around 63 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 29.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 17.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 670
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 29.2% of all recorded uses (276).
Is Nyoka 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
- —
- 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 1943 (60)
- Years since peak
- 82
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.2% average annual change
Spellings of Nyoka
Nyoka is not the most common spelling — Nora is, with 52.1% against Nyoka'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 Nyoka is used
Across 1910–2025, Nyoka was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 298,394 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1West Virginia1 in 50,000
- 2Kentucky1 in 100,000
- 3Tennessee1 in 100,000
- 4Alabama1 in —
- 5North Carolina1 in —
- 6New York1 in —
- 7Virginia1 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. Nyoka has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Nyoka around the world
Where Nyoka 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.
- South Australia2005–2007#803in 2007
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Nyoka by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nyoka
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nyoka
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.