In 2025, 34 US boys were named Nyyear, making it the 3,426th most common boys’ name of the year, down 908 places from #2,518 in 2024. That is 20 fewer than the 54 boys named Nyyear in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,518, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 54. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nyyear in 7 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2019 with 7 babies. In all, 187 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 180 babies named Nyyear.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 187 US boys were named Nyyear; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 54. In 2025 that was about 1 in 50,238 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.