Nyasha

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Nyasha is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa. In Zimbabwe it is the 86th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Grace of God.

rarermore common
  • ZWZimbabwe1 in 803◐
  • ZASouth Africa1 in 18K
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 133K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈746 ●

across 4 countries

Sources
168 ●

8.2K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 23K ◐

Guyana

Meaning & origin●

Grace of God.

Sources 1

  • The African book of names

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Nyasha is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ZA South Africa—1,8511.8K rec.——Nyasha48
GB United Kingdom—1,550578 rec.—listedNyasha75
ZW Zimbabwe#861,050472 rec.——Nyasha51
US United States—6454.1K rec.1 in 516K645Nyasha168
AU Australia—491437 rec.—1Nyasha45
CA Canada—143120 rec.—7Nyasha28
IN India—13658 rec.——Nyasha23
CN China—7028 rec.——Nyasha9
PL Poland—63—1 in 608K63——
SE Sweden—5754 rec.——Nyasha6
VC St. Vincent & Grenadines#206512 rec.—51Nyasha3
DE Germany—4143 rec.——Nyasha19

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English5.9K47%
  • Swahili4K32%
  • Polish3823%
  • Spanish3002%
  • 2482%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English5,87547%
Swahili3,97432%
Polish3823%
Spanish3002%
2482%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Nyasha is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname46 records spelled Nyasha8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Kazakhstan, South Africa

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Няша, Niasha

47 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

0102030401980199020002010202032 · 1992

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Nyasha in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1971–2021
Yearrecords
19716
19725
19737
19748
197510
197613
19779
19785
197912
19809
198110
19827
198311
19848
198510
19865
19876
19887
198927
199019
199122
199232
199328
199423
199532
199630
199719
199822
199918
200023
200118
200219
200317
200420
200514
200621
200720
20087
200912
20108
201110
20128
20135
20148
20165
20205
20215

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 47 years between 1971–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

  • Marshall Munetsib. 1996ZWnot in their usual nameZimbabwean association football player (born 1996)

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●

Attested in 16 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Nyasha
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020645#16,110
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—63#2,027
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202663#2,027
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202060#16,110
VC St. Vincent & GrenadinesElectoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025)202551#64
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 2025202533#561
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202632#4,609
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199532—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199232—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199630—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—29#4,542
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199328—

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 2026-09-12 data build · 69 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Nyasha?
We estimate roughly 746 people bear Nyasha (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
In which country does Nyasha have the most bearers?
Nyasha is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled nyasha.
How common is Nyasha compared with other names?
In Zimbabwe, Nyasha is the 86th most common given name of 3,651 given names recorded there.
Is Nyasha a male or female name?
Nyasha is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What does the name Nyasha mean?
Recorded meaning: Grace of God.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Nyasha” — the 86th most common given name in Zimbabwe. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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