Meaning not yet researched.
Nilsa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,260 in 1960.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,260 in 1960; #16,600 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nilsa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#16,600 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1960, at #1,260.
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Nilsa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,260 in 1960 · most girls in one year: 76 (1960).
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Nilsa, making it the 16,600th most common girls’ name of the year, down 4,731 places from #11,869 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 8 girls named Nilsa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,260, reached in 1960. That year also had the most girls given the name: 76. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #2,510 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nilsa in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1946 with 5 babies. In all, 1,809 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 606 babies named Nilsa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 53 US girls were named Nilsa; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 13. In 2025 that was about 1 in 321,453 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Nilza and Nelsa 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nilza (66), Nelsa (39).
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 Nilsa 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 | 5 | #16,600 | — | — |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,869 | — | — |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,394 | — | — |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,769 | — | — |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,649 | — | — |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,137 | — | — |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,420 | — | — |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,495 | — | — |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,812 | — | — |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,472 | — | — |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,106 | — | — |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,373 | — | — |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,082 | — | — |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,309 | — | — |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,770 | — | — |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,994 | — | — |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,302 | — | — |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,649 | — | — |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,024 | — | — |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,332 | — | — |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,961 | — | — |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,932 | — | — |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,386 | — | — |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,331 | — | — |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,174 | — | — |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,056 | — | — |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,031 | — | — |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,230 | — | — |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,481 | — | — |
| 1985 | 15 | #5,018 | — | — |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,946 | — | — |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,639 | — | — |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,286 | — | — |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,702 | — | — |
| 1980 | 28 | #3,112 | — | — |
| 1979 | 32 | #2,777 | — | — |
| 1978 | 26 | #3,066 | — | — |
| 1977 | 36 | #2,450 | — | — |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,843 | — | — |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,727 | — | — |
| 1974 | 28 | #2,664 | — | — |
| 1973 | 35 | #2,257 | — | — |
| 1972 | 45 | #1,876 | — | — |
| 1971 | 48 | #1,848 | — | — |
| 1970 | 44 | #1,944 | — | — |
| 1969 | 56 | #1,604 | — | — |
| 1968 | 47 | #1,722 | — | — |
| 1967 | 60 | #1,436 | — | — |
| 1966 | 61 | #1,413 | — | — |
| 1965 | 56 | #1,493 | — | — |
| 1964 | 52 | #1,585 | — | — |
| 1963 | 66 | #1,368 | — | — |
| 1962 | 69 | #1,340 | — | — |
| 1961 | 63 | #1,415 | — | — |
| 1960 | 76 | #1,260 | — | — |
| 1959 | 70 | #1,286 | — | — |
| 1958 | 56 | #1,429 | — | — |
| 1957 | 62 | #1,353 | — | — |
| 1956 | 43 | #1,627 | — | — |
| 1955 | 39 | #1,659 | — | — |
| 1954 | 44 | #1,531 | — | — |
| 1953 | 43 | #1,500 | — | — |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,383 | — | — |
| 1951 | 25 | #2,006 | — | — |
| 1950 | 17 | #2,510 | — | — |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,336 | — | — |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,094 | — | — |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,488 | — | — |
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).