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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | — | |
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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 2001
No state had 5 or more boys named Nyjah in 2001, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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.
Nyjah 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 52,960 of them was named Nyjah, which outranked 78.9% 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).
- #3,703Yoseline35
- #3,703Ysabella35
- #3,703Zania35
- #3,785Nyjah34
- #3,785Aalyiah34
- #3,785Aishah34
- #3,785Alandra34
- #3,864Aaliah33
- #3,864Aeryn33
- #3,864Aleyna33
Tied with 78 names at #3,785; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,942,881 boys got a published name in 2001; 1 in 323,814 of them was named Nyjah, which outranked 24.9% 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).
- #8,339Zoltan7
- #8,339Zorian7
- #8,339Zvi7
- #9,243Nyjah6
- #9,243Aaronjames6
- #9,243Aarsh6
- #9,243Abba6
- #10,556Aahil5
- #10,556Aarick5
- #10,556Aaronjoshua5
Tied with 1,312 names at #9,243; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.