girl's name

Nanayaa

  • Gender Girl
  • Letters 7
  • Popularity Rare
  • Births on record 90

Nanayaa is a girl's name. In 2025 it was given to 12 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

  • Peaked in 2025, when 12 babies were given the name.
  • Its usage has held steady over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 276,319 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 2006.

Nanayaa over time

Births per decade in the United States, 2000s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

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Births named Nanayaa by decade in the United States
Decade Births
2000s 18
2010s 46
2020s (to 2025) 23

How popular is Nanayaa?

In 2025, Nanayaa was given to 12 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Where Nanayaa is used

England & Wales as Nana-Yaa #6,005 3 in 2008
United States #8,825 12 in 2025

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

How Nanayaa is spelled

Birth registers count each spelling separately, so every one has its own ranking.

Spelling What it is Births on record
Nana-Yaa Nana-Yaa is Nanayaa written with a hyphen, used in England and Wales, where it ranks #6,005. 3

Names that peaked alongside Nanayaa

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Nanayaa also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Nanayaa over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Sibling names for Nanayaa

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Nanayaa — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Nanayaa

How popular is the name Nanayaa?

In 2025, Nanayaa was given to 12 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Is Nanayaa a girl's or a boy's name?

Nanayaa is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

When was Nanayaa most popular?

Nanayaa peaked in 2025, when 12 babies were given the name. Its usage has held steady over the past decade.

Is Nanayaa a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Nanayaa currently ranks #8,825 in the United States. Its usage has held steady over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.