Nahla
#2,822 for girls in 2025, 60 births
- Peak · girls
- 2011 · 306 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,236since 1977
Nahla over time
Rank among girls' names. Nahla has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,822 | 60 |
| 2024 | #2,661 | 65 |
| 2023 | #2,269 | 81 |
| 2022 | #1,782 | 115 |
| 2021 | #1,249 | 188 |
| 2020 | #1,389 | 157 |
| 2019 | #1,648 | 128 |
| 2018 | #1,540 | 141 |
| 2017 | #1,321 | 176 |
| 2016 | #1,224 | 201 |
| 2015 | #1,239 | 197 |
| 2014 | #1,205 | 202 |
| 2013 | #974 | 258 |
| 2012 | #922 | 279 |
| 2011 | #861 | 306 |
| 2010 | #1,035 | 241 |
| 2009 | #1,426 | 164 |
| 2008 | #2,295 | 85 |
| 2007 | #6,323 | 21 |
| 2006 | #7,868 | 15 |
| 2005 | #6,820 | 17 |
| 2004 | #7,391 | 15 |
| 2003 | #6,576 | 17 |
| 2002 | #10,246 | 9 |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 |
| 2000 | #8,027 | 12 |
| 1999 | #6,836 | 14 |
| 1998 | #7,104 | 13 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 |
| 1996 | #7,130 | 12 |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 |
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| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 |
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| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 |
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| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Nahla! It came in at #9,652, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1977–1983, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Nahla is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Nevada#446 · 1 in 1,806
- Virginia#842 · 1 in 4,504
- Maryland#894 · 1 in 4,655
- New Jersey#918 · 1 in 5,138
- Tennessee#933 · 1 in 5,100
Best ever in a state: #188 in North Dakota, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | #446 | 6 | 1 in 1,806 |
| Virginia | #842 | 8 | 1 in 4,504 |
| Maryland | #894 | 5 | 1 in 4,655 |
| New Jersey | #918 | 7 | 1 in 5,138 |
| Tennessee | #933 | 6 | 1 in 5,100 |
| New York | #1,026 | 15 | 1 in 5,866 |
| Illinois | #1,055 | 9 | 1 in 6,172 |
| Florida | #1,283 | 10 | 1 in 8,596 |
| Georgia | #1,285 | 6 | 1 in 7,854 |
| Texas | #1,290 | 19 | 1 in 8,414 |
| California | #1,353 | 20 | 1 in 9,788 |
| Ohio | #1,460 | 5 | 1 in 10,355 |
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See more about Nahla
- 161 spots since 2024 (#2,661 → #2,822)
- 1,433 spots since 2020 (#1,389 → #2,822)
- 1,583 spots since 2015 (#1,239 → #2,822)
- Biggest jump: 174 spots in 2011 (#1,035 → #861)
- Biggest drop: 231 spots in 2014 (#974 → #1,205)
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 2011 at #861 (306 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 2011–2013
- Highest: 1 in 5,749 girls born in 2011 were named Nahla (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 26,788 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 65.8% of all girls named Nahla (2,129) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #9,652 (1977) | #9,652 |
| 1980s | 14 | #7,398 (1984) | #8,353 |
| 1990s | 58 | #6,836 (1999) | #9,290 |
| 2000s | 364 | #1,426 (2009) | #6,707 |
| 2010s | 2,129 | #861 (2011) | #1,197 |
| 2020s | 666 | #1,249 (2021) | #2,029 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Nahla in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 9,809 of them was named Nahla, which outranked 92.8% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,317Bernadette177
- #1,317Betty177
- #1,317Soraya177
- #1,321Nahla176
- #1,321Ayah176
- #1,321Calla176
- #1,321Dina176
- #1,331Audra175
- #1,331Haddie175
- #1,331Merritt175
Tied with 9 names at #1,321; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.