Nyjah
Nyjah is a boy's name that peaked in 2022, when it was the 2,060th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 2,884th. About 1,500 Nyjahs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Nyjah boys named Nyjah
Girls and boys called Nyjah
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Nyjah crossed from girls to boys in 2011, and has stayed there for 15 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 91% boys, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 27 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,476
- Estimated living today
- 1,500
- Median age today
- 11
- Peak year
- 2022
- Best rank
- 2,060th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,884th
- First recorded
- 1991
- Girls / boys
- 629 / 847
How old the living Nyjahs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,476 babies given the name since 1991, about 1,500 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,000 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 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 Nyjahs
- Nyjah Huston (born 1994)American skateboarder
People named Nyjah with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Nyjah is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Nyjah is most concentrated in California (6.1×), Texas (2.5×), New York (0.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2022
The most popular boys’ names the year Nyjah peaked:
Nyjah elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland boys | Nyjah | 11 | 1,545th |
| England and Wales boys | Nyjah | 8 | 4,001st |
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.
Nyjah: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Nyjah | 9 | 0.001% | 1,469th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Nyjah | 2 | 0.000% | 820th |
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.
Try it on yourself
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.