Nya
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 123 babies a year in the US.
Nya by the numbers
In 2025, 17 babies in England and Wales were named Nya. In the US, 123 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.
Its American peak was 408 babies in 2001, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Nya
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Nya. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Nya
Names that are said the same way as Nya, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.