Meaning not yet researched.
Nylah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 590 in 2025. Its best rank was #363 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #363 in 2019; #504 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nylah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#504 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #363.
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Nylah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 590 girls in 2025. Peak: #363 in 2019 · most girls in one year: 870 (2019).
In 2025, 590 US girls were named Nylah, making it the 504th most common girls’ name of the year, down 53 places from #451 in 2024. That is 105 fewer than the 695 girls named Nylah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #363, reached in 2019. That year also had the most girls given the name: 870. For comparison, it was #438 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nylah in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1992 with 5 babies. In all, 13,739 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 7,192 babies named Nylah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,541 US girls were named Nylah; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 870. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,724 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nylah ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #207 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), Nila (7,136 babies since 1880) and Nilah (1,420 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nialah, Neelah and Nylayah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Nialah (174), Neelah (141), Nylayah (100), Neilah (80), Nielah (21), Niaylah (21), Niilah (6), Nyailah (5), Nyaylah (5), Nyeelah (5), Nylaiah (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 Nylah 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 22 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 8 | #207 | — |
| South Carolina | 23 | #216 | #290 |
| Maryland | 20 | #264 | #290 |
| Louisiana | 16 | #289 | #214 |
| Connecticut | 11 | #290 | #435 |
| Oklahoma | 14 | #309 | #732 |
| New York | 49 | #348 | #250 |
| Florida | 50 | #373 | #300 |
| Georgia | 30 | #376 | #302 |
| Alabama | 13 | #387 | #783 |
| Massachusetts | 15 | #390 | #439 |
| New Jersey | 19 | #414 | #382 |
| Michigan | 19 | #454 | #358 |
| Virginia | 18 | #457 | #283 |
| Illinois | 21 | #489 | #554 |
| Mississippi | 6 | #502 | #414 |
| North Carolina | 21 | #531 | #303 |
| Missouri | 11 | #547 | #552 |
| Tennessee | 14 | #561 | #478 |
| Texas | 56 | #567 | #570 |
| Ohio | 18 | #587 | #397 |
| Kentucky | 7 | #639 | #419 |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #640 | #349 |
| Kansas | 5 | #664 | #603 |
| Indiana | 9 | #710 | #504 |
| California | 43 | #728 | #669 |
| Minnesota | 6 | #812 | — |
| Arizona | 7 | #887 | #529 |
| Washington | 6 | #1,016 | #1,248 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 590 | #504 | — | — |
| 2024 | 695 | #451 | — | — |
| 2023 | 805 | #383 | — | — |
| 2022 | 735 | #430 | — | — |
| 2021 | 790 | #400 | — | — |
| 2020 | 775 | #403 | — | — |
| 2019 | 870 | #363 | — | — |
| 2018 | 758 | #408 | — | — |
| 2017 | 719 | #441 | — | — |
| 2016 | 804 | #415 | — | — |
| 2015 | 722 | #438 | — | — |
| 2014 | 743 | #429 | — | — |
| 2013 | 734 | #413 | — | — |
| 2012 | 704 | #444 | — | — |
| 2011 | 652 | #457 | — | — |
| 2010 | 486 | #605 | — | — |
| 2009 | 456 | #648 | — | — |
| 2008 | 349 | #822 | — | — |
| 2007 | 227 | #1,136 | — | — |
| 2006 | 207 | #1,179 | — | — |
| 2005 | 215 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 2004 | 162 | #1,322 | — | — |
| 2003 | 115 | #1,672 | — | — |
| 2002 | 133 | #1,441 | — | — |
| 2001 | 78 | #2,121 | — | — |
| 2000 | 66 | #2,364 | — | — |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,486 | — | — |
| 1998 | 46 | #2,879 | — | — |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,478 | — | — |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,424 | — | — |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,521 | — | — |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,860 | — | — |
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).