Meaning not yet researched.
Nyjah: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 43 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,035 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,035 in 2014; #2,919 in 2025. About 90% of babies named Nyjah in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,919 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #2,035.
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Nyjah: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 43 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,035 in 2014 · most boys in one year: 73 (2022).
In 2025, 43 US boys were named Nyjah, making it the 2,919th most common boys’ name of the year, down 264 places from #2,655 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 50 boys named Nyjah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,035, reached in 2014. The most boys given the name in a single year was 73, in 2022. For comparison, it was #2,342 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Nyjah, making it the 16,631st most common girls’ name of the year, up 410 places from #17,041 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 5 girls named Nyjah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,204, reached in 2000. The most girls given the name in a single year was 43, in 2003. For comparison, it was #7,518 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nyjah in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 5 babies. In all, 1,476 US babies have been given the name, 43% of them girls and 57% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 565 babies named Nyjah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 531 US boys were named Nyjah; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 73. In 2025 that was about 1 in 39,723 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nyjah ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,285 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Nijah (1,403 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nija, Nyja and Nijae are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nija (834), Nyja (202), Nijae (199), Nyjae (188), Niajah (159), Nyaja (129), Nyajah (111), Nijay (76), Nyjai (74), Nijai (18), Nyaijah (5), Neajah (5).
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 Nyjah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 15 | #1,285 | #1,427 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,631 | 43 | #2,919 |
| 2024 | 5 | #17,041 | 50 | #2,655 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,947 | 52 | #2,571 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,512 | 73 | #2,074 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,177 | 63 | #2,251 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,851 | 66 | #2,130 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,252 | 46 | #2,755 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,487 | 40 | #2,981 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,381 | 57 | #2,305 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,737 | 41 | #2,920 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,518 | 56 | #2,342 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,923 | 70 | #2,035 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,077 | 37 | #3,039 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,112 | 38 | #3,041 |
| 2011 | 13 | #9,024 | 30 | #3,579 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,837 | 14 | #6,280 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,494 | 23 | #4,391 |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,092 | 13 | #6,666 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,495 | 17 | #5,364 |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,136 | 12 | #6,788 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,478 | — | — |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,677 | — | — |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,401 | — | — |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,251 | — | — |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,847 | 6 | #10,176 |
| 2000 | 43 | #3,204 | — | — |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,274 | — | — |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,279 | — | — |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,169 | — | — |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,651 | — | — |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,337 | — | — |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,965 | — | — |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,909 | — | — |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,349 | — | — |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,721 | — | — |
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).