Meaning not yet researched.
Nila: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 116 in 2025. Its best rank was #567 in 1935.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #567 in 1935; #1,754 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nila in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,754 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1935, at #567.
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Nila: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 116 girls in 2025. Peak: #567 in 1935 · most girls in one year: 144 (2022).
In 2025, 116 US girls were named Nila, making it the 1,754th most common girls’ name of the year, down 74 places from #1,680 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 122 girls named Nila in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #567, reached in 1935. The most girls given the name in a single year was 144, in 2022. For comparison, it was #1,789 in 2015 and #1,035 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nila in 134 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1890 with 6 babies. In all, 7,136 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,063 babies named Nila.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,180 US girls were named Nila; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 144. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,856 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nila ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #791 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Nyla (27,714 babies since 1880), Nylah (13,739 babies since 1880), Nella (4,374 babies since 1880) and Nilah (1,420 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nilaya, Neilla and Niella 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: Nilaya (118), Neilla (5), Niella (5).
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 Nila in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 8 | #791 | — |
| New Jersey | 9 | #826 | #1,312 |
| Virginia | 8 | #912 | #1,351 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,242 | #1,537 |
| California | 20 | #1,263 | #1,577 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,560 | — |
| Texas | 13 | #1,764 | #1,785 |
| New York | 5 | #2,329 | #1,912 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 116 | #1,754 | — | — |
| 2024 | 122 | #1,680 | — | — |
| 2023 | 103 | #1,931 | — | — |
| 2022 | 144 | #1,513 | — | — |
| 2021 | 108 | #1,856 | — | — |
| 2020 | 110 | #1,803 | — | — |
| 2019 | 125 | #1,681 | — | — |
| 2018 | 120 | #1,724 | — | — |
| 2017 | 127 | #1,693 | — | — |
| 2016 | 105 | #1,924 | — | — |
| 2015 | 117 | #1,789 | — | — |
| 2014 | 110 | #1,849 | — | — |
| 2013 | 107 | #1,887 | — | — |
| 2012 | 100 | #1,969 | — | — |
| 2011 | 91 | #2,117 | — | — |
| 2010 | 61 | #2,863 | — | — |
| 2009 | 83 | #2,354 | — | — |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,744 | — | — |
| 2007 | 63 | #2,882 | — | — |
| 2006 | 66 | #2,720 | — | — |
| 2005 | 56 | #2,924 | — | — |
| 2004 | 50 | #3,117 | — | — |
| 2003 | 50 | #3,027 | — | — |
| 2002 | 46 | #3,130 | — | — |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,764 | — | — |
| 2000 | 38 | #3,499 | — | — |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,295 | — | — |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,622 | — | — |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,166 | — | — |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,910 | — | — |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,562 | — | — |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,395 | — | — |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,513 | — | — |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,281 | — | — |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,126 | — | — |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,173 | — | — |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,055 | — | — |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,790 | — | — |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,214 | — | — |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,480 | — | — |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,395 | — | — |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,439 | — | — |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,624 | — | — |
| 1982 | 25 | #3,389 | — | — |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,282 | — | — |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,259 | — | — |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,745 | — | — |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,393 | — | — |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,363 | — | — |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,495 | — | — |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,599 | — | — |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,182 | — | — |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,430 | — | — |
| 1972 | 28 | #2,569 | — | — |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,336 | — | — |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,399 | — | — |
| 1969 | 25 | #2,684 | — | — |
| 1968 | 21 | #2,845 | — | — |
| 1967 | 37 | #1,939 | — | — |
| 1966 | 37 | #1,902 | — | — |
| 1965 | 28 | #2,281 | — | — |
| 1964 | 31 | #2,178 | — | — |
| 1963 | 38 | #1,913 | — | — |
| 1962 | 43 | #1,753 | — | — |
| 1961 | 51 | #1,592 | — | — |
| 1960 | 66 | #1,360 | — | — |
| 1959 | 61 | #1,380 | — | — |
| 1958 | 71 | #1,263 | — | — |
| 1957 | 75 | #1,222 | — | — |
| 1956 | 92 | #1,073 | — | — |
| 1955 | 79 | #1,125 | — | — |
| 1954 | 95 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 1953 | 98 | #964 | — | — |
| 1952 | 83 | #1,035 | — | — |
| 1951 | 101 | #911 | — | — |
| 1950 | 78 | #1,035 | — | — |
| 1949 | 93 | #922 | — | — |
| 1948 | 78 | #990 | — | — |
| 1947 | 78 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 1946 | 86 | #907 | — | — |
| 1945 | 72 | #895 | — | — |
| 1944 | 72 | #905 | — | — |
| 1943 | 92 | #805 | — | — |
| 1942 | 106 | #730 | — | — |
| 1941 | 92 | #745 | — | — |
| 1940 | 85 | #759 | — | — |
| 1939 | 103 | #671 | — | — |
| 1938 | 87 | #744 | — | — |
| 1937 | 86 | #731 | — | — |
| 1936 | 101 | #659 | — | — |
| 1935 | 128 | #567 | — | — |
| 1934 | 118 | #608 | — | — |
| 1933 | 94 | #675 | — | — |
| 1932 | 73 | #798 | — | — |
| 1931 | 68 | #836 | — | — |
| 1930 | 86 | #758 | — | — |
| 1929 | 88 | #750 | — | — |
| 1928 | 72 | #860 | — | — |
| 1927 | 86 | #784 | — | — |
| 1926 | 68 | #908 | — | — |
| 1925 | 66 | #921 | — | — |
| 1924 | 73 | #885 | — | — |
| 1923 | 73 | #861 | — | — |
| 1922 | 64 | #926 | — | — |
| 1921 | 61 | #952 | — | — |
| 1920 | 62 | #929 | — | — |
| 1919 | 53 | #995 | — | — |
| 1918 | 49 | #1,037 | — | — |
| 1917 | 45 | #1,063 | — | — |
| 1916 | 38 | #1,162 | — | — |
| 1915 | 43 | #1,022 | — | — |
| 1914 | 38 | #964 | — | — |
| 1913 | 24 | #1,140 | — | — |
| 1912 | 22 | #1,139 | — | — |
| 1911 | 14 | #1,276 | — | — |
| 1910 | 21 | #961 | — | — |
| 1909 | 11 | #1,349 | — | — |
| 1908 | 18 | #963 | — | — |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,294 | — | — |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,884 | — | — |
| 1905 | 8 | #1,504 | — | — |
| 1904 | 14 | #989 | — | — |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,735 | — | — |
| 1902 | 8 | #1,405 | — | — |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,204 | — | — |
| 1900 | 11 | #1,211 | — | — |
| 1899 | 9 | #1,160 | — | — |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,349 | — | — |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,722 | — | — |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,393 | — | — |
| 1893 | 7 | #1,261 | — | — |
| 1892 | 8 | #1,152 | — | — |
| 1891 | 9 | #988 | — | — |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,304 | — | — |
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).