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 | — | |
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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.
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 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 102,554 of them was named Nyjah, which outranked 60.6% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,691Zerenity17
- #6,691Zira17
- #6,691Zyiah17
- #6,967Nyjah16
- #6,967Aairah16
- #6,967Aalyah16
- #6,967Aaron16
- #7,250Aadvika15
- #7,250Aalaya15
- #7,250Aaminah15
Tied with 282 names at #6,967; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 27,770 of them was named Nyjah, which outranked 84.2% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,193Whitaker64
- #2,193Woods64
- #2,193Xaiden64
- #2,225Nyjah63
- #2,225Aahan63
- #2,225Ahmari63
- #2,225Angus63
- #2,253Adriano62
- #2,253Amaru62
- #2,253Athan62
Tied with 27 names at #2,225; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.