Ня
given name · Cyrillic script
Meaning: commonly used by Russian-speaking anime communities
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Ня is a female given name written in the Cyrillic script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 18Mfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 63Kas Nya
- DKDenmark1 in 245Kas Nya
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ня itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18M (inferred from the name graph)
5,258 named Nya, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Russia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)commonly used by Russian-speaking anime communities. Often used as a synonym of "hello" or "how cute".
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ня counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 5,258as Nya | 1 in 63K | 5.2K | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | 60as Nya | 1 in 288K | 60 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 31as Nya | 1 in 1.6M | 43 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 24as Nya | 1 in 245K | 24 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 18M | — | Ня | 33 |
| GY Guyana | 2as Nya | 1 in 375K | 2 | — | — |
5,258 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Ня is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Belarusian, alternative form of не (nje): not (in pre-tonal positions)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mdf, indefinite plural nominative of тя (tä); these
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In yrk, friend
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Ня come from?
- commonly used by Russian-speaking anime communities. Often used as a synonym of "hello" or "how cute". Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Ня a male or female name?
- Ня is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Ня mean?
- Recorded meaning: commonly used by Russian-speaking anime communities.
- In which country does Ня have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.3 thousand people named Nya, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ня?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,258 people named Nya in 2020, about 1 in 63 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ня?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D0%BD%D1%8FThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ня”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.