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Nyari vs Nyasia

American parents have registered 5,413 Nyasias since 1880, against 543 Nyaris. But in 2025 it was Nyari that was commoner, 143 babies to 37.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Nyari 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 Nyari for 3 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Nyari Nyasia
Total US births 5435,413
Most in one year 143344
Babies in 2025 14337
Estimated living today 5405,400
Median age today 220
Peak year 20252006
Best rank 1,493rd girls794th girls
Rank in 2025 1,493rd3,903rd
First recorded 20051977
Girls / boys 543 / 05,413 / 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 Nyaris are over 2. That is 18 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Nyari Nyasia
England and Wales 310

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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