Nyah
#2,276 for girls in 2025, 80 births · Last seen for boys in 2001 at #10,556
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2001 · 547 births
- Debut · girls
- 17 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,460since 1980
Nyah over time
Rank among girls' names. Nyah has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,276 | 80 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,178 | 87 | — | |
| 2023 | #2,002 | 98 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,731 | 120 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,698 | 122 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,849 | 105 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,687 | 124 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,609 | 133 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,409 | 162 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,545 | 145 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,372 | 172 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,253 | 193 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,192 | 201 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,263 | 191 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,490 | 150 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,130 | 217 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,163 | 216 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,087 | 240 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,088 | 239 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,227 | 196 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,168 | 197 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,038 | 223 | — | |
| 2003 | #810 | 304 | — | |
| 2002 | #615 | 416 | — | |
| 2001 | #504 | 547 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | #792 | 290 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,567 | 55 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,370 | 59 | — | |
| 1997 | #3,815 | 29 | — | |
| 1996 | #3,723 | 29 | — | |
| 1995 | #5,439 | 17 | — | |
| 1994 | #5,713 | 16 | — | |
| 1993 | #5,955 | 15 | — | |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 | — | |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 | — | |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 | — | |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 | — | |
| 1988 | — | — | ||
| 1987 | — | — | ||
| 1986 | — | — | ||
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | — | |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | — | |
| 1983 | — | — | ||
| 1982 | — | — | ||
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 | — | |
| 1980 | #4,327 | 17 | — | |
| 1979 | — | — | ||
| 1978 | — | — | ||
| 1977 | — | — | ||
| 1976 | — | — | ||
| 1975 | — | — | ||
| 1974 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | — | — | ||
| 1972 | — | — | ||
| 1971 | — | — | ||
| 1970 | — | — | ||
| 1969 | — | — | ||
| 1968 | — | — | ||
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | — | ||
| 1965 | — | — | ||
| 1964 | — | — | ||
| 1963 | — | — | ||
| 1962 | — | — | ||
| 1961 | — | — | ||
| 1960 | — | — | ||
| 1959 | — | — | ||
| 1958 | — | — | ||
| 1957 | — | — | ||
| 1956 | — | — | ||
| 1955 | — | — | ||
| 1954 | — | — | ||
| 1953 | — | — | ||
| 1952 | — | — | ||
| 1951 | — | — | ||
| 1950 | — | — | ||
| 1949 | — | — | ||
| 1948 | — | — | ||
| 1947 | — | — | ||
| 1946 | — | — | ||
| 1945 | — | — | ||
| 1944 | — | — | ||
| 1943 | — | — | ||
| 1942 | — | — | ||
| 1941 | — | — | ||
| 1940 | — | — | ||
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | — | — | ||
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | — | — | ||
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 1933 | — | — | ||
| 1932 | — | — | ||
| 1931 | — | — | ||
| 1930 | — | — | ||
| 1929 | — | — | ||
| 1928 | — | — | ||
| 1927 | — | — | ||
| 1926 | — | — | ||
| 1925 | — | — | ||
| 1924 | — | — | ||
| 1923 | — | — | ||
| 1922 | — | — | ||
| 1921 | — | — | ||
| 1920 | — | — | ||
| 1919 | — | — | ||
| 1918 | — | — | ||
| 1917 | — | — | ||
| 1916 | — | — | ||
| 1915 | — | — | ||
| 1914 | — | — | ||
| 1913 | — | — | ||
| 1912 | — | — | ||
| 1911 | — | — | ||
| 1910 | — | — | ||
| 1909 | — | — | ||
| 1908 | — | — | ||
| 1907 | — | — | ||
| 1906 | — | — | ||
| 1905 | — | — | ||
| 1904 | — | — | ||
| 1903 | — | — | ||
| 1902 | — | — | ||
| 1901 | — | — | ||
| 1900 | — | — | ||
| 1899 | — | — | ||
| 1898 | — | — | ||
| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | — | — | ||
| 1895 | — | — | ||
| 1894 | — | — | ||
| 1893 | — | — | ||
| 1892 | — | — | ||
| 1891 | — | — | ||
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | — | ||
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Nyah! It came in at #4,327, and was given to 17 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1982–1983, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Nyah
- 98 spots since 2024 (#2,178 → #2,276)
- 427 spots since 2020 (#1,849 → #2,276)
- 904 spots since 2015 (#1,372 → #2,276)
- Biggest jump: 1,775 spots in 2000 (#2,567 → #792)
- Biggest drop: 228 spots in 2004 (#810 → #1,038)
- Debuted 1980
- Peaked 2001 at #504 (547 births)
- Births halved by 2004, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 2000–2003
- Highest: 1 in 3,292 girls born in 2001 were named Nyah (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 20,091 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 52.5% of all girls named Nyah (2,868) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 44 | #4,327 (1980) | #7,933 |
| 1990s | 248 | #2,370 (1998) | #5,496 |
| 2000s | 2,868 | #504 (2001) | #949 |
| 2010s | 1,688 | #1,130 (2010) | #1,395 |
| 2020s | 612 | #1,698 (2021) | #1,956 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Nyah in 2001
Top girls' names in 2001
Top boys' names in 2001
More about 2001
girls
1,800,624 girls got a published name in 2001; 1 in 3,292 of them was named Nyah, which outranked 97.2% of the 17,978 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,942,881 boys got a published name in 2001; 1 in 388,576 of them was named Nyah, which outranked 14.2% of the 12,307 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,751 names at #10,556; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.