Meaning not yet researched.
Nyra: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 147 in 2025. Its best rank was #851 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #851 in 2021; #1,465 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nyra in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,465 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #851.
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Nyra: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 147 girls in 2025. Peak: #851 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 324 (2021).
In 2025, 147 US girls were named Nyra, making it the 1,465th most common girls’ name of the year, down 238 places from #1,227 in 2024. That is 45 fewer than the 192 girls named Nyra in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #851, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 324. For comparison, it was #4,565 in 2015 and #3,870 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nyra in 63 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 5 babies. In all, 2,413 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,438 babies named Nyra.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,909 US girls were named Nyra; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 324. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,934 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nyra ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #669 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Nira (810 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Niara, Nyaira and Nyara 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: Niara (1,196), Nyaira (258), Nyara (244), Nyrah (168), Neera (165), Nera (151), Neira (136), Niyara (96), Neyra (80), Nyera (48), Nyarah (42), Nyirah (38), and more.
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 Nyra 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 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 8 | #669 | — |
| Virginia | 9 | #824 | — |
| New Jersey | 9 | #829 | — |
| Washington | 7 | #881 | — |
| California | 18 | #1,345 | #3,291 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,365 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,397 | — |
| New York | 9 | #1,493 | — |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,499 | — |
| Florida | 9 | #1,517 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,616 | — |
| Texas | 13 | #1,765 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 147 | #1,465 | — | — |
| 2024 | 192 | #1,227 | — | — |
| 2023 | 263 | #979 | — | — |
| 2022 | 273 | #975 | — | — |
| 2021 | 324 | #851 | — | — |
| 2020 | 239 | #1,049 | — | — |
| 2019 | 165 | #1,370 | — | — |
| 2018 | 167 | #1,355 | — | — |
| 2017 | 98 | #2,014 | — | — |
| 2016 | 41 | #3,762 | — | — |
| 2015 | 31 | #4,565 | — | — |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,941 | — | — |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,078 | — | — |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,049 | — | — |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,704 | — | — |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,156 | — | — |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,833 | — | — |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,857 | — | — |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,420 | — | — |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,141 | — | — |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,227 | — | — |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,599 | — | — |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,236 | — | — |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,052 | — | — |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,229 | — | — |
| 2000 | 11 | #9,001 | — | — |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,986 | — | — |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,990 | — | — |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,458 | — | — |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,906 | — | — |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,415 | — | — |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,861 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,039 | — | — |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,517 | — | — |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,629 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,468 | — | — |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,083 | — | — |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,920 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,276 | — | — |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,677 | — | — |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,109 | — | — |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,795 | — | — |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,823 | — | — |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,838 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,535 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,489 | — | — |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,918 | — | — |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,382 | — | — |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,069 | — | — |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,372 | — | — |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,902 | — | — |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,805 | — | — |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,921 | — | — |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,870 | — | — |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,894 | — | — |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,821 | — | — |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,722 | — | — |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,171 | — | — |
| 1933 | 16 | #2,028 | — | — |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,699 | — | — |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,590 | — | — |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,334 | — | — |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,051 | — | — |
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).