girls:
1.8k births since 1970
#3983 (30th percentile)
overall:
1.8k births since 1970
#5955 (23rd percentile)
The name Nyssa is the #5,955 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,799 recorded births since 1970. This represents the 23.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 23.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,983 (30.3% percentile) for all time with 1,799 births since 1970.
Nyssa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1970 (first recorded for girls in 1970). Birth data for Nyssa is available in 52 out of the 54 years between 1970 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Nyssa reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 11.6% percentile (ranked #802) with 55 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 55 births per million (ranked 11.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Nyssa ranks #934 for girls (1.4% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 18.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nyssa".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Nyssa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 83.3% confident that Nyssa is pronounced as NIH-suh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NEE-suh, at 16.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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