Nyah
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Expressing smug triumph
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nyah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 75K(measured from records)
- CMCameroon≈1 in 20K
- NLNetherlands1 in 118K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 217 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
4,427 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Expressing smug triumph.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nyah 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 | 4,427 | 1 in 75K | 4.4K | Nyah | 217 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Nyah | 9 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 786K | — | Nyah | 28 |
| NL Netherlands | 146 | 1 in 118K | 146 | Nyah | 7 |
| AU Australia | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 210K | 4 | Nyah | 45 |
| GY Guyana | 5 | 1 in 150K | 5 | — | 2 |
4,427 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; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); 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)
Nyah is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In acn, Third-person singular possessive: his, her, its
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Malay, to run from
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In wuu, Mold, Mould
as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
In wuu, Clutch
as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
In wuu, Grasp
as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 39 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Nyah a male or female name?
- Nyah 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 Nyah mean, and where does it come from?
- Expressing smug triumph. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Nyah have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.4 thousand people named Nyah, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nyah.
- How common is the name Nyah?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,427 people named Nyah in 2020, about 1 in 75 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nyahThe 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, “Nyah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.