Nyx
Nyx was the 2577th most popular name for girls in 2025, given to 68 babies. Its best year was 2022, when it ranked 2244th with 84 babies. Over the last ten years it has moved up 4,943 places. More babies were named Nyx in the 2020s than in any other decade.
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- Rank in 2025
- #2,577 girls, up 1,189 places since 2020
- Babies in 2025
- 68girls
- Girls and boys
- 75% girls, 25% boys2021–2025
- Peak year
- 202284 babies
- Total since 1880
- 673babies recorded
Nyx popularity since 1880
| Year | Rank (girls) | Rank (boys) | Babies (girls) | Babies (boys) |
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| 2025 | #2,577 | #4,015 | 68 | 27 |
| 2020 | #3,766 | #9,315 | 39 | 8 |
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How popular is Nyx, counting every spelling?
Nyx has no other common spelling that sounds the same.
How many kids will share the name Nyx?
68 of the 3,606,400 babies born in the US in 2025 were named Nyx (0.02 per 1,000 births). For a girl named Nyx born in 2025, the chance that another child with the same name is in a class of 20 children the same age is under 1 in 50. If every grade liked the name as much as the 2025 babies do, only about one elementary school in 123 (of 430 pupils) would have a child named Nyx.
Shares of all registered births (NCHS); classes assumed to be children born the same year. How we estimate this.
How old are people named Nyx?
About 500 people born in the US named Nyx are alive today, with a median age of 4; half are between 3 and 7. That makes Nyx a young name: most people with it are children.
Babies given the name each year (SSA) times the share of that birth year still alive (SSA life tables). Counts people born in the US only. Method.
Nyx by state
How common Nyx was among girls born in each state in 2021–2025. In 45 states fewer than five girls a year got the name, too few for SSA to publish, so those states show as zero.
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Questions about the name Nyx
How popular is the name Nyx?
Nyx was the 2577th most popular name for girls in 2025, given to 68 babies. Its best year was 2022, when it ranked 2244th with 84 babies. Over the last ten years it has moved up 4,943 places. More babies were named Nyx in the 2020s than in any other decade.
Is Nyx a boy or girl name?
In 2021–2025, 75% girls, 25% boys given the name Nyx in the US.
Where is Nyx most popular?
In 2021–2025, Nyx was most common in Texas (0.04 per 1,000 girls), followed by Washington and Florida.