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Nyssa

#6,488 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Nyssa has been given to 1,830 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #6,488 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 110 recorded.

Babies named Nyssa, 2025

1 in 184,000

Nyssa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nyssa: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nyssa means

Nyssa is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Nyssa is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,830 girls were recorded with the name Nyssa between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 110 in 2003; its best national rank was #1,728 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,443 in 2020 to #6,488 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,619 in 2015 to #6,488 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Nyssa?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 89,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,488
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nyssa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nyssa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nyssas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nyssa was born before 2001 — so the typical Nyssa is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
31.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,830
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 31.5% of all recorded uses (577).

Is Nyssa 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
+2,326
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,045
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−869
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.75×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
16.4%
Peak was 2003 (110)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,728
2003

Spellings of Nyssa

Nyssa is not the most common spelling — Alyssa is, with 64.7% against Nyssa's 0.38%.

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 Nyssa is used

Across 1910–2025, Nyssa was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 166,853 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Colorado1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 100,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 100,000
  6. 6Arizona1 in —
  7. 7North Carolina1 in —
  8. 8New Jersey1 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. Nyssa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nyssa around the world

Where Nyssa 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 & Wales
    1996–2022
    #5,670
    in 2022
  • Scotland
    1982–1982
    #530
    in 1982
  • France
    2004–2025
    #5,027
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2018
    #3,159
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1982–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Nyssa by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,488
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,045
Best rank ever
#1,728
2003
Peak year
2003
110 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,830
Count in 2025
18

Names similar to Nyssa

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Nyssa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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