Nyjah
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #2,884 for boys in 2025, 43 births
Given to boys 57.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2014 · 70 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 847since 2001
Nyjah over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #2,884 | 43 |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | #2,637 | 50 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | #2,541 | 52 |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 | #2,060 | 73 |
| 2021 | #6,967 | 16 | #2,225 | 63 |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 | #2,113 | 66 |
| 2019 | #7,025 | 16 | #2,736 | 46 |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 | #2,943 | 40 |
| 2017 | #10,689 | 9 | #2,295 | 57 |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #2,885 | 41 |
| 2015 | #7,266 | 16 | #2,328 | 56 |
| 2014 | #6,713 | 18 | #2,017 | 70 |
| 2013 | #9,612 | 11 | #2,998 | 37 |
| 2012 | #7,804 | 15 | #3,002 | 38 |
| 2011 | #8,614 | 13 | #3,510 | 30 |
| 2010 | #6,641 | 19 | #6,036 | 14 |
| 2009 | #6,317 | 21 | #4,278 | 23 |
| 2008 | #5,955 | 23 | #6,393 | 13 |
| 2007 | #6,323 | 21 | #5,210 | 17 |
| 2006 | #4,073 | 36 | #6,460 | 12 |
| 2005 | #6,245 | 19 | — | |
| 2004 | #4,601 | 29 | — | |
| 2003 | #3,347 | 43 | — | |
| 2002 | #4,179 | 30 | — | |
| 2001 | #3,785 | 34 | #9,243 | 6 |
| 2000 | #3,169 | 43 | — | |
| 1999 | #4,201 | 27 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,222 | 38 | — | |
| 1997 | #5,010 | 20 | — | |
| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 | — | |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 | — | |
| 1994 | #6,672 | 13 | — | |
| 1993 | #7,498 | 11 | — | |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Nyjah! It came in at #9,243, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2002–2005, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Nyjah is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#1,241 · 1 in 11,698
Best ever in a state: #780 in Arizona, 2012.
Show every state
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| California | #1,241 | 15 | 1 in 11,698 |
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See more about Nyjah
- 247 spots since 2024 (#2,637 → #2,884)
- 771 spots since 2020 (#2,113 → #2,884)
- 556 spots since 2015 (#2,328 → #2,884)
- Debuted 2001
- Peaked 2014 at #2,017 (70 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 23,918 boys born in 2022 were named Nyjah (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 39,723 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,017 in 2014, was only 1 in 27,441 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 50.6% of all boys named Nyjah (429) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2010, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 71 | #4,278 (2009) | #6,317 |
| 2010s | 429 | #2,017 (2014) | #3,075 |
| 2020s | 347 | #2,060 (2022) | #2,410 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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