Nyah

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Nyah: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Nyah: Recorded every year since 1999, it reached #377 in 2005, and it stood at #1,065 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
40times a registrar ranked it
26years from first to last
#377highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1999–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#2770
2000	#1195
2001	#455
2002	#508
2003	#478
2004	#521
2005	#609
2006	#544
2007	#623
2008	#710
2009	#664
2010	#593
2011	#575
2012	#580
2013	#554
2014	#731
2015	#649
2016	#645
2017	#855
2018	#767
2019	#770
2020	#872
2021	#1007
2022	#762
2023	#647
2024	#1065

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1999 to 2024.

In 2022: #762 among girls in England and Wales, #905 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1999–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1999
First recorded at #2770 among girls in England and Wales in 1999 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2005–2016
Highest recorded position: #377 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2005 (recorded 2005–2016).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1065 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Nyah appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 26 years beginning in 1999, and has registered 1,376 births with the name.

Nyah across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Nyah's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#2770 (1999)	#455 (2001)	#1065 (2024)	26 of 26	1,376 (1999–2024)	74 (2013)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#498 (2001)	#498 (2001)	#905 (2022)	6 of 22	20 (2001–2022)	4 (2001)
England and Wales · Boys	#4432 (2008)	#3895 (2014)	#4608 (2020)	6 of 13	21 (2008–2020)	4 (2012)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#377 (2005)	#377 (2005)	#440 (2016)	2 of 12	6 (2005–2016)	3 (2005)

Nyah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Nyah in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	5	1 of 10	5
2000s	551	10 of 10	55
2010sbusiest	609	10 of 10	61
2020s	211	5 of 10	42

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 61 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2000 and 2001, when recorded births rose by 51, from 16 to 67.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Nyah appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1999 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #377 in Northern Ireland in 2005.

Nyah's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1065	32	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#647	56	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#762	48	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1007	34	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#872	41	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#770	49	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3937	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#767	50	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#855	45	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#645	65	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#649	63	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#4747	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#731	54	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3895	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#554	74	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#580	73	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3987	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#575	70	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#593	66	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#664	55	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#710	50	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#4432	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#623	56	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#544	66	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#609	52	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#521	62	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#478	68	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#508	59	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#455	67	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1195	16	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2770	5	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#440	3	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#377	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#842	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#635	4	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#655	3	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#498	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1999 and 2024, ranked in 26 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #377, first reached in 2005.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 74 births, registered in England and Wales in 2013.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2001, and 6 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Nyla · #193, 28y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Anastacia · #377, 21y
Kenzi · #377, 26y
Myia · #377, 21y
Shana · #377, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Anna-Marie · #377, 20y
Kenzi · #377, 26y
Macsen · #377, 29y
Myia · #377, 21y

Nyah was ranked #377 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2005. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Nyah and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Nyah without appearing here.

Nyah moved ahead of

Evan Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2770 and #2770 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #455 and #3998.
Gail Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2770 and #2770 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #1195 and #3912.
Karin Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2770 and #1557 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #1195 and #3912.
Lynette Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2770 and #2444 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #1195 and #3912.

Moved ahead of Nyah

Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #770 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #872 and #460.
Blake Compare
In 2016 they stood at #645 and #768 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #855 and #499.
Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #575 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #580 and #284.
Aria Compare
In 2011 they stood at #575 and #615 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #580 and #294.

Moved the opposite way to Nyah

Abigail Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nyah went from #2770 to #1065 while Abigail went from #20 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nyah went from #2770 to #1065 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nyah went from #2770 to #1065 while Aisling went from #410 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nyah went from #2770 to #1065 while Alex went from #204 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Nyah

Ada Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nyah went from #2770 to #1065 and Ada from #2189 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nyah went from #2770 to #1065 and Alma from #3225 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nyah went from #2770 to #1065 and Alyssa from #483 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nyah went from #2770 to #1065 and Amalie from #2770 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1999 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #377 in Northern Ireland in 2005. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Nyah

Nyah at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Nyah across 4 official records

Nyah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Nyah at a glance

Nyah across 4 official records

Nyah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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