In 2025, 62 US girls were named Nya, making it the 2,767th most common girls’ name of the year, down 701 places from #2,066 in 2024. That is 32 fewer than the 94 girls named Nya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #618, reached in 2001. That year also had the most girls given the name: 408. For comparison, it was #1,285 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nya in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 6 babies. In all, 6,006 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 3,029 babies named Nya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,082 US girls were named Nya; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 138. In 2025 that was about 1 in 25,924 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nya ranked highest in Pennsylvania in 2025, at #1,563 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Nia (25,432 babies since 1880), Nyah (5,465 babies since 1880), Niya (4,790 babies since 1880) and Neha (4,351 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Neyah, Neeya and Neyo are summarised on this page.