Nyra
#1,465 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nyra has been given to 2,413 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #1,465 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 324 recorded.
Babies named Nyra, 2025
1 in 22,600
Nyra 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Nyra?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 22,600
- 147 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 10,900
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,465
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 15,633 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nyra 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 15,633 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nyra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nyras were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nyra was born before 2020 — so the typical Nyra is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 59.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 88.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,349
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 59.6% of all recorded uses (1,438).
Is Nyra 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
- −238
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −416
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,099
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 4.74×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 45.4%
- Peak was 2021 (324)
- Years since peak
- 4
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 37.1% average annual change
Spellings of Nyra
Nyra is not the most common spelling — Sara is, with 14.5% against Nyra's 0.08%.
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 Nyra is used
Across 2016–2025, Nyra was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 2,326 girls, against 1 in 6,961 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 33,333).
Most concentrated
- 1New Jersey1 in 2,326
- 2Washington1 in 3,571
- 3Massachusetts1 in 4,545
- 4California1 in 5,263
- 5Virginia1 in 5,263
- 6Georgia1 in 5,556
- 7North Carolina1 in 5,882
- 8Illinois1 in 6,667
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.
Nyra around the world
Where Nyra 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 & Wales1999–2025#676in 2025
- Scotland2022–2023#749in 2023
- Ireland2022–2025#718in 2025
- France2025–2025#7,429in 2025
- Canada2016–2024#608in 2024
- South Australia2012–2012#871in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Nyra by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nyra
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Nyra
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Nyra, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Nyra
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.