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Nyaire vs Nyasia

American parents have registered 5,413 Nyasias since 1880, against 564 Nyaires. But in 2025 it was Nyaire that was commoner, 103 babies to 37.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Nyaire against Nyasia, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Nyaire Nyasia

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 45 years in which either name was published, Nyasia for 42 years and Nyaire for 3 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Nyaire Nyasia
Total US births 5645,413
Most in one year 103344
Babies in 2025 10337
Estimated living today 5605,400
Median age today 420
Peak year 20252006
Best rank 1,743rd boys794th girls
Rank in 2025 1,743rd3,903rd
First recorded 20011977
Girls / boys 114 / 4505,413 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Nyasias alive today are over 20; half the Nyaires are over 4. That is 16 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Nyaire and Nyasia.