Naya

Where Naya comes from

Naya hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1974
    First appearance
    #6,900 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1987
    Naya Rivera born
    American actress and singer
  3. 1994
    Naya Tapper born
    American rugby union player
  4. 2021
    Peak, #668
    446 babies named Naya — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Naya Rivera · American actress and singer, 1987–2020
  • Naya Tapper · American rugby union player, born 1994
  • Naya Bienstock · Israeli actress, born 2001
  • Naya Anindita · Indonesian film director, born 1988
  • Naya Crittenden · American volleyball player, born 1995

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.