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Nya

Nya means "Swahili, purpose" and comes from Swahili, giving it real etymological depth as a girl's name. It shows no signs of slowing down, reaching new highs in the 2000s. In the current registry, it is a real rarity. Across the twelve decades this registry covers, it appears in 5 of them.

EtymologyVariant of Nia
SwahiliSwahili – "purpose"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
0
1930s
0
1940s
0
1950s
0
1960s
0
1970s
58
1980s
113
1990s
658
2000s
3,029
2010s
1,322
Peaked in the 2000s · 5,180 total U.S. births since 1900