How popular is “Nyah” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Nyah” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

This chart shows how the popularity of “Nyah” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Nyah” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

This chart shows how “Nyah” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1980	17	0.000004935	17		100%
1981	7	0.000002023	7		100%
1984	6	0.00000172	6		100%
1985	6	0.000001681	6		100%
1989	8	0.000002081	8		100%
1990	11	0.000002783	11		100%
1991	9	0.00000231	9		100%
1992	8	0.000002083	8		100%
1993	15	0.000003978	15		100%
1994	16	0.000004304	16		100%
1995	17	0.000004642	17		100%
1996	29	0.000007951	29		100%
1997	29	0.000007998	29		100%
1998	59	0.00001604	59		100%
1999	55	0.00001489	55		100%
2000	290	0.000076722	290		100%
2001	552	0.00014746	547	5	98%
2002	416	0.000111281	416		100%
2003	304	0.000079951	304		100%
2004	223	0.000058363	223		100%
2005	197	0.000051237	197		100%
2006	196	0.000049543	196		100%
2007	239	0.000059785	239		100%
2008	240	0.000061058	240		100%
2009	216	0.000056542	216		100%
2010	217	0.000058716	217		100%
2011	150	0.000041008	150		100%
2012	191	0.000052223	191		100%
2013	201	0.000055134	201		100%
2014	193	0.000052072	193		100%
2015	172	0.000046475	172		100%
2016	145	0.000039524	145		100%
2017	162	0.0000453	162		100%
2018	133	0.000037828	133		100%
2019	124	0.000035725	124		100%
2020	105	0.000031432	105		100%
2021	122	0.00003601	122		100%
2022	120	0.00003547	120		100%
2023	98	0.000029597	98		100%
2024	86	0.000025837	86		100%

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