Meaning not yet researched.
Nalah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 31 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,298 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,298 in 2020; #4,521 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nalah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,521 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #2,298.
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Nalah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 31 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,298 in 2020 · most girls in one year: 78 (2020).
In 2025, 31 US girls were named Nalah, making it the 4,521st most common girls’ name of the year, down 168 places from #4,353 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 33 girls named Nalah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,298, reached in 2020. That year also had the most girls given the name: 78. For comparison, it was #2,878 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nalah in 29 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1995 with 5 babies. In all, 1,001 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 555 babies named Nalah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 563 US girls were named Nalah; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 78. In 2025 that was about 1 in 51,847 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Nala (6,138 babies since 1880), Nailah (4,848 babies since 1880), Nayla (3,579 babies since 1880) and Nahla (3,236 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nalayah and Nalaiah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nalayah (669), Nalaiah (15).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Nalah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,521 | — | — |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,353 | — | — |
| 2023 | 54 | #3,075 | — | — |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,517 | — | — |
| 2021 | 61 | #2,811 | — | — |
| 2020 | 78 | #2,298 | — | — |
| 2019 | 62 | #2,744 | — | — |
| 2018 | 69 | #2,552 | — | — |
| 2017 | 61 | #2,809 | — | — |
| 2016 | 69 | #2,585 | — | — |
| 2015 | 61 | #2,878 | — | — |
| 2014 | 44 | #3,570 | — | — |
| 2013 | 67 | #2,652 | — | — |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,077 | — | — |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,049 | — | — |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,827 | — | — |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,550 | — | — |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,997 | — | — |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,546 | — | — |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,727 | — | — |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,552 | — | — |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,715 | — | — |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,193 | — | — |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,182 | — | — |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,984 | — | — |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,098 | — | — |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,372 | — | — |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,109 | — | — |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,026 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).