Meaning not yet researched.
Nyah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 80 in 2025. Its best rank was #504 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #504 in 2001; #2,293 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nyah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,293 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #504.
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Nyah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 80 girls in 2025. Peak: #504 in 2001 · most girls in one year: 547 (2001).
In 2025, 80 US girls were named Nyah, making it the 2,293rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 101 places from #2,192 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 87 girls named Nyah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #504, reached in 2001. That year also had the most girls given the name: 547. For comparison, it was #1,378 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nyah in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1980 with 17 babies. In all, 5,465 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,873 babies named Nyah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,176 US girls were named Nyah; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 162. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,091 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nyah ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #2,334 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), Nya (6,006 babies since 1880), Niya (4,790 babies since 1880) and Niyah (3,001 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Niyyah, Neeyah and Neeah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Niyyah (25), Neeyah (15), Neeah (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Nyah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 5 | #2,334 | #1,195 |
| Texas | 9 | #2,344 | #1,787 |
| California | 8 | #2,437 | #1,081 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 80 | #2,293 | — | — |
| 2024 | 87 | #2,192 | — | — |
| 2023 | 98 | #2,015 | — | — |
| 2022 | 120 | #1,740 | — | — |
| 2021 | 122 | #1,706 | — | — |
| 2020 | 105 | #1,857 | — | — |
| 2019 | 124 | #1,695 | — | — |
| 2018 | 133 | #1,614 | — | — |
| 2017 | 162 | #1,413 | — | — |
| 2016 | 145 | #1,549 | — | — |
| 2015 | 172 | #1,378 | — | — |
| 2014 | 193 | #1,256 | — | — |
| 2013 | 201 | #1,197 | — | — |
| 2012 | 191 | #1,263 | — | — |
| 2011 | 150 | #1,495 | — | — |
| 2010 | 217 | #1,131 | — | — |
| 2009 | 216 | #1,166 | — | — |
| 2008 | 240 | #1,088 | — | — |
| 2007 | 239 | #1,091 | — | — |
| 2006 | 196 | #1,232 | — | — |
| 2005 | 197 | #1,172 | — | — |
| 2004 | 223 | #1,041 | — | — |
| 2003 | 304 | #813 | — | — |
| 2002 | 416 | #615 | — | — |
| 2001 | 547 | #504 | 5 | #11,818 |
| 2000 | 290 | #793 | — | — |
| 1999 | 55 | #2,598 | — | — |
| 1998 | 59 | #2,387 | — | — |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,874 | — | — |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,800 | — | — |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,617 | — | — |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,909 | — | — |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,172 | — | — |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,190 | — | — |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,137 | — | — |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,709 | — | — |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,389 | — | — |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,257 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,984 | — | — |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,756 | — | — |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,462 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).