Meaning not yet researched.
Nilah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 40 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,259 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,259 in 2012; #3,757 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nilah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,757 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #2,259.
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Nilah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 40 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,259 in 2012 · most girls in one year: 84 (2012).
In 2025, 40 US girls were named Nilah, making it the 3,757th most common girls’ name of the year, up 879 places from #4,636 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 30 girls named Nilah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,259, reached in 2012. That year also had the most girls given the name: 84. For comparison, it was #2,546 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nilah in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 6 babies. In all, 1,420 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 710 babies named Nilah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 511 US girls were named Nilah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 70. In 2025 that was about 1 in 40,182 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Nyla (27,714 babies since 1880), Nylah (13,739 babies since 1880) and Nila (7,136 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nilayah 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: Nilayah (56).
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 Nilah 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 | 40 | #3,757 | — | — |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,636 | — | — |
| 2023 | 48 | #3,367 | — | — |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,551 | — | — |
| 2021 | 46 | #3,426 | — | — |
| 2020 | 62 | #2,705 | — | — |
| 2019 | 62 | #2,746 | — | — |
| 2018 | 60 | #2,833 | — | — |
| 2017 | 62 | #2,769 | — | — |
| 2016 | 70 | #2,557 | — | — |
| 2015 | 71 | #2,546 | — | — |
| 2014 | 79 | #2,343 | — | — |
| 2013 | 75 | #2,428 | — | — |
| 2012 | 84 | #2,259 | — | — |
| 2011 | 81 | #2,318 | — | — |
| 2010 | 66 | #2,717 | — | — |
| 2009 | 58 | #2,990 | — | — |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,206 | — | — |
| 2007 | 41 | #3,902 | — | — |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,549 | — | — |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,176 | — | — |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,689 | — | — |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,982 | — | — |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,842 | — | — |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,067 | — | — |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,465 | — | — |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,300 | — | — |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,851 | — | — |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,429 | — | — |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,169 | — | — |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,969 | — | — |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,758 | — | — |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,813 | — | — |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,709 | — | — |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,029 | — | — |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,715 | — | — |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,786 | — | — |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,645 | — | — |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,948 | — | — |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,573 | — | — |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,168 | — | — |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,412 | — | — |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,563 | — | — |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,329 | — | — |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,866 | — | — |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,334 | — | — |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,557 | — | — |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,652 | — | — |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,171 | — | — |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,274 | — | — |
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).