Nyrah
#8,221 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nyrah has been given to 168 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #8,221 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 17 recorded.
Babies named Nyrah, 2025
1 in 255,000
Nyrah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Nyrah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 255,000
- 13 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 124,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #8,221
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 176,762 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nyrah 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nyrah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nyrahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nyrah was born before 2019 — so the typical Nyrah is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 95.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 168
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (84).
Is Nyrah 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
- +1,181
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,372
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +10,200
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.60×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 76.5%
- Peak was 2020 (17)
- Years since peak
- 5
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.8% average annual change
Spellings of Nyrah
Nyrah is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 67.1% against Nyrah's 0.01%.
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.
Nyrah around the world
Where Nyrah 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 & Wales2013–2025#2,138in 2025
- Ireland2025–2025#885in 2025
- Canada2022–2022#2,896in 2022
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Nyrah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nyrah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nyrah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.