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Nya

The girl's name Nya has been in the national records since 1970, with 6,006 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 2,751st. About 5,900 Nyas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Nya

By the numbers

Total US births
6,006
Estimated living today
5,900
Median age today
19
Peak year
2001
Best rank
614th
Rank in 2025
2,751st
First recorded
1970

How old the living Nyas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 6,006 babies given the name since 1970, about 5,900 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 2,500 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Nya is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Nya is most concentrated in Florida (2.6×), Maryland (2.5×), Georgia (2.2×), the District of Columbia (1.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2001

The most popular girls’ names the year Nya peaked:

All the names of 2001

Nya elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Nya 487 906th
France girls Nya 150 2,286th
Switzerland girls Nya 44 1,020th
Belgium girls Nya 26 1,062nd
Scotland girls Nya 11 630th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Nya: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German girls Switzerland Nya 38 0.003% 770th
French girls Switzerland Nya 2 0.000% 862nd
Italian girls Switzerland Nya 4 0.006% 188th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

Nya: rank by region

In 2020, Nya was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Nya 750 6

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

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Nya against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.