Meaning not yet researched.
Nyx: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 68 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,244 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,244 in 2022; #2,577 in 2025. About 72% of babies named Nyx in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,577 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #2,244.
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Nyx: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 68 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,244 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 84 (2022).
In 2025, 68 US girls were named Nyx, making it the 2,577th most common girls’ name of the year, up 136 places from #2,713 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 64 girls named Nyx in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,244, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 84. For comparison, it was #7,520 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 27 US boys were named Nyx, making it the 4,015th most common boys’ name of the year, up 144 places from #4,159 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 26 boys named Nyx in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #4,015, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 27. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nyx in 17 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2008 with 5 babies. In all, 673 US babies have been given the name, 79% of them girls and 21% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 500 babies named Nyx.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 466 US girls were named Nyx; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 84. In 2025 that was about 1 in 23,636 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nyx ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #1,201 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Nix are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nix (101).
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 Nyx 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 5 | #1,201 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,352 | — |
| California | 5 | #3,413 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 68 | #2,577 | 27 | #4,015 |
| 2024 | 64 | #2,713 | 26 | #4,159 |
| 2023 | 65 | #2,694 | 25 | #4,304 |
| 2022 | 84 | #2,244 | 25 | #4,263 |
| 2021 | 61 | #2,812 | 8 | #9,449 |
| 2020 | 39 | #3,766 | 8 | #9,315 |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,242 | 6 | #11,755 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,578 | 7 | #10,434 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,347 | — | — |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,286 | — | — |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,520 | — | — |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,383 | — | — |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,416 | — | — |
| 2012 | — | — | 6 | #11,857 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,921 | — | — |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,451 | — | — |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,711 | — | — |
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).