Meaning not yet researched.
Nyla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,315 in 2025. Its best rank was #227 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #227 in 2021; #236 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nyla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#236 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #227.
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Nyla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,315 girls in 2025. Peak: #227 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 1,344 (2024).
In 2025, 1,315 US girls were named Nyla, making it the 236th most common girls’ name of the year, down 7 places from #229 in 2024. That is 29 fewer than the 1,344 girls named Nyla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #227, reached in 2021. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,344, in 2024. For comparison, it was #326 in 2015 and #1,446 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nyla in 111 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 5 babies. In all, 27,714 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 10,359 babies named Nyla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 12,194 US girls were named Nyla; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 1,344. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,222 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nyla ranked highest in Delaware in 2025, at #42 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 2 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Nylah (13,739 babies since 1880), Nila (7,136 babies since 1880), Nella (4,374 babies since 1880) and Nilah (1,420 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Neila, Neola and Niylah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Neila (1,405), Neola (1,014), Niylah (704), Nela (597), Neala (595), Niyla (582), Neyla (512), Nyala (331), Nyela (299), Nilay (262), Nyella (182), Niala (175), and more.
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 Nyla 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 11 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware | 14 | #42 | #146 |
| Vermont | 5 | #97 | — |
| Maryland | 44 | #101 | #245 |
| Mississippi | 21 | #112 | #263 |
| Connecticut | 26 | #114 | #269 |
| Georgia | 76 | #131 | #188 |
| Louisiana | 31 | #136 | #224 |
| Nevada | 17 | #148 | #396 |
| Virginia | 52 | #152 | #208 |
| Oklahoma | 22 | #183 | #350 |
| District of Columbia | 5 | #184 | — |
| Arkansas | 17 | #186 | #561 |
| Florida | 98 | #188 | #299 |
| North Carolina | 55 | #199 | #179 |
| West Virginia | 9 | #199 | #395 |
| Tennessee | 39 | #200 | #311 |
| South Carolina | 24 | #206 | #182 |
| New York | 80 | #218 | #226 |
| Illinois | 46 | #219 | #360 |
| South Dakota | 6 | #227 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 49 | #232 | #264 |
| Alabama | 21 | #233 | #266 |
| Missouri | 25 | #252 | #416 |
| Kentucky | 17 | #270 | #615 |
| Kansas | 12 | #277 | #602 |
| Massachusetts | 21 | #282 | #340 |
| Ohio | 39 | #286 | #312 |
| New Mexico | 6 | #287 | — |
| Texas | 119 | #292 | #405 |
| New Jersey | 29 | #293 | #219 |
| Indiana | 24 | #303 | #469 |
| California | 104 | #317 | #491 |
| Utah | 14 | #328 | — |
| Michigan | 27 | #338 | #371 |
| Washington | 22 | #341 | #547 |
| Arizona | 20 | #350 | #455 |
| Minnesota | 15 | #371 | #377 |
| Wisconsin | 14 | #385 | #414 |
| Colorado | 15 | #404 | #400 |
| Iowa | 6 | #556 | #676 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,315 | #236 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,344 | #229 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,246 | #250 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,262 | #241 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,323 | #227 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,213 | #247 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,275 | #256 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,134 | #289 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,082 | #304 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,000 | #328 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,002 | #326 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,086 | #299 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,033 | #313 | — | — |
| 2012 | 956 | #328 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,000 | #315 | — | — |
| 2010 | 791 | #405 | — | — |
| 2009 | 801 | #394 | — | — |
| 2008 | 784 | #409 | — | — |
| 2007 | 718 | #446 | — | — |
| 2006 | 835 | #389 | — | — |
| 2005 | 869 | #362 | — | — |
| 2004 | 745 | #410 | — | — |
| 2003 | 615 | #478 | — | — |
| 2002 | 637 | #453 | — | — |
| 2001 | 264 | #869 | — | — |
| 2000 | 204 | #1,033 | — | — |
| 1999 | 189 | #1,068 | — | — |
| 1998 | 190 | #1,042 | — | — |
| 1997 | 134 | #1,302 | — | — |
| 1996 | 100 | #1,574 | — | — |
| 1995 | 70 | #1,973 | — | — |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,678 | — | — |
| 1993 | 26 | #4,071 | — | — |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,924 | — | — |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,333 | — | — |
| 1990 | 27 | #3,878 | — | — |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,760 | — | — |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,998 | — | — |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,091 | — | — |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,485 | — | — |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,399 | — | — |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,899 | — | — |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,065 | — | — |
| 1982 | 25 | #3,391 | — | — |
| 1981 | 23 | #3,595 | — | — |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,260 | — | — |
| 1979 | 19 | #4,002 | — | — |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,396 | — | — |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,451 | — | — |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,525 | — | — |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,295 | — | — |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,171 | — | — |
| 1973 | 23 | #2,988 | — | — |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,712 | — | — |
| 1971 | 21 | #3,234 | — | — |
| 1970 | 29 | #2,560 | — | — |
| 1969 | 19 | #3,167 | — | — |
| 1968 | 21 | #2,846 | — | — |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,613 | — | — |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,361 | — | — |
| 1965 | 25 | #2,449 | — | — |
| 1964 | 23 | #2,646 | — | — |
| 1963 | 28 | #2,286 | — | — |
| 1962 | 33 | #2,062 | — | — |
| 1961 | 41 | #1,800 | — | — |
| 1960 | 43 | #1,741 | — | — |
| 1959 | 42 | #1,713 | — | — |
| 1958 | 52 | #1,491 | — | — |
| 1957 | 62 | #1,354 | — | — |
| 1956 | 59 | #1,359 | — | — |
| 1955 | 78 | #1,135 | — | — |
| 1954 | 52 | #1,403 | — | — |
| 1953 | 67 | #1,185 | — | — |
| 1952 | 48 | #1,413 | — | — |
| 1951 | 69 | #1,130 | — | — |
| 1950 | 41 | #1,446 | — | — |
| 1949 | 48 | #1,332 | — | — |
| 1948 | 47 | #1,354 | — | — |
| 1947 | 49 | #1,309 | — | — |
| 1946 | 36 | #1,475 | — | — |
| 1945 | 45 | #1,182 | — | — |
| 1944 | 46 | #1,169 | — | — |
| 1943 | 60 | #1,033 | — | — |
| 1942 | 52 | #1,098 | — | — |
| 1941 | 73 | #856 | — | — |
| 1940 | 50 | #1,019 | — | — |
| 1939 | 32 | #1,322 | — | — |
| 1938 | 48 | #1,042 | — | — |
| 1937 | 46 | #1,059 | — | — |
| 1936 | 33 | #1,262 | — | — |
| 1935 | 40 | #1,114 | — | — |
| 1934 | 41 | #1,119 | — | — |
| 1933 | 35 | #1,216 | — | — |
| 1932 | 38 | #1,172 | — | — |
| 1931 | 34 | #1,254 | — | — |
| 1930 | 24 | #1,648 | — | — |
| 1929 | 28 | #1,476 | — | — |
| 1928 | 32 | #1,386 | — | — |
| 1927 | 30 | #1,513 | — | — |
| 1926 | 26 | #1,653 | — | — |
| 1925 | 21 | #1,930 | — | — |
| 1924 | 24 | #1,798 | — | — |
| 1923 | 23 | #1,817 | — | — |
| 1922 | 31 | #1,497 | — | — |
| 1921 | 18 | #2,174 | — | — |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,846 | — | — |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,951 | — | — |
| 1918 | 12 | #2,785 | — | — |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,515 | — | — |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,278 | — | — |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,785 | — | — |
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).