How rare is the name Nyah?

4,427 people in the United States have the first name Nyah, about 1 in 68,225. It ranks #4,290 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

NYAH

#4,290

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,427
About
1 in 68,225
This common or more
83.8%
Who bears it

Of the 4,427 people named Nyah, 36.4% reported their origin as Black, 24% as White and 21.4% as Hispanic or Latino. 98.9% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Nyah peaked in 2001, when 552 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19802025
Peak year
2001
Births that year
552
In 2025*
80 ▼86%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,465 babies have been given the name since 1980. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Nyah by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #1,576. The largest share of babies named Nyah, 65.4%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1980s#15,47544
1990s#6,932248
2000s#1,5762,873
2010s#2,4621,688
2020s#3,516612
Generation X 1965–800.3%
Millennials 1981–962.4%
Generation Z 1997–1265.4%
2013 and later31.9%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Nyah is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Nyah has been most common in Florida (2.7×), Utah (2.4×), and Washington (2.1×), and least common in Missouri (0.39×).

3,822 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Nyah

1 other first name also has 4,427 people.

#4,290 Kalia · 4,427

Either side of Nyah

#4,289 Joeseph · 4,431#4,290 Kalia · 4,427#4,292 Tanesha · 4,426#4,293 Kylah · 4,424

Spelled almost the same

2 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Nyah, most common first.

#3,775 Nya · 5,258#33,126 Nyiah · 251

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