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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Nyx” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nyx” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Nyx” 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.

Popularity of “Nyx” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Nyx” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nyx” 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.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
2008 5 0.000001272 5 100%
2009 5 0.000001309 5 100%
2011 9 0.000002461 9 100%
2012 6 0.000001641 6 -100%
2013 20 0.000005486 20 100%
2014 14 0.000003777 14 100%
2015 16 0.000004323 16 100%
2016 12 0.000003271 12 100%
2017 16 0.000004474 16 100%
2018 30 0.000008533 23 7 53%
2019 40 0.000011524 34 6 70%
2020 47 0.000014069 39 8 66%
2021 69 0.000020366 61 8 77%
2022 109 0.000032219 84 25 54%
2023 90 0.000027181 65 25 44%
2024 90 0.000027039 64 26 42%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Nyx:

  1. Nyuri
  2. Nyvaeh
  3. Nyvea
  4. Nyveah
  5. Nyvia
  6. Nyx (this page)
  7. Nyxie
  8. Nyxon
  9. Nyya
  10. Nyyear
  11. Nyyeir