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Nydia

Nydia reached its high-water mark in 1992 at number 1,755, and has been recorded 3,704 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 3,400 Nydias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 40.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Nydia

By the numbers

Total US births
3,704
Estimated living today
3,400
Median age today
40
Peak year
1992
Best rank
1,755th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1896

How old the living Nydias are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,704 babies given the name since 1896, about 3,400 are alive — 91 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1985 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.

Notable Nydias

People named Nydia with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Nydia is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Nydia is most concentrated in New York (4.6×), Texas (3.6×), California (2.2×), New Jersey (1.3×).

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

Names of 1992

The most popular girls’ names the year Nydia peaked:

All the names of 1992

Nydia elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Nydia 35 2,480th

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.

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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.