Nailah
#1,818 for girls in 2025, 110 births
- Peak · girls
- 2018 · 256 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,848since 1971
Nailah over time
Rank among girls' names. Nailah has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #1,818 | 110 |
| 2024 | #1,796 | 112 |
| 2023 | #1,692 | 122 |
| 2022 | #1,531 | 140 |
| 2021 | #1,347 | 164 |
| 2020 | #1,227 | 186 |
| 2019 | #1,083 | 231 |
| 2018 | #1,014 | 256 |
| 2017 | #1,069 | 239 |
| 2016 | #1,446 | 159 |
| 2015 | #1,437 | 160 |
| 2014 | #1,487 | 150 |
| 2013 | #1,309 | 179 |
| 2012 | #1,364 | 171 |
| 2011 | #1,348 | 171 |
| 2010 | #1,495 | 150 |
| 2009 | #1,602 | 140 |
| 2008 | #1,583 | 144 |
| 2007 | #1,621 | 137 |
| 2006 | #1,444 | 155 |
| 2005 | #1,533 | 134 |
| 2004 | #1,470 | 137 |
| 2003 | #1,970 | 92 |
| 2002 | #1,984 | 88 |
| 2001 | #1,941 | 89 |
| 2000 | #1,801 | 96 |
| 1999 | #1,786 | 89 |
| 1998 | #1,819 | 85 |
| 1997 | #2,023 | 70 |
| 1996 | #2,125 | 64 |
| 1995 | #1,920 | 72 |
| 1994 | #2,188 | 61 |
| 1993 | #2,639 | 46 |
| 1992 | #2,733 | 44 |
| 1991 | #3,936 | 26 |
| 1990 | #3,156 | 35 |
| 1989 | #3,784 | 26 |
| 1988 | #4,015 | 22 |
| 1987 | #3,743 | 23 |
| 1986 | #4,539 | 17 |
| 1985 | #3,621 | 23 |
| 1984 | #4,966 | 14 |
| 1983 | #4,686 | 15 |
| 1982 | #4,167 | 18 |
| 1981 | #4,162 | 18 |
| 1980 | #2,940 | 30 |
| 1979 | #3,668 | 21 |
| 1978 | #3,924 | 18 |
| 1977 | #2,909 | 27 |
| 1976 | #3,812 | 17 |
| 1975 | #3,774 | 17 |
| 1974 | #4,720 | 12 |
| 1973 | #4,362 | 13 |
| 1972 | #5,959 | 8 |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Nailah! It came in at #8,324, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1971, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Nailah is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Connecticut#527 · 1 in 2,465
- New York#752 · 1 in 4,278
- Maryland#777 · 1 in 4,007
- Massachusetts#844 · 1 in 5,095
- North Carolina#913 · 1 in 5,034
Best ever in a state: #451 in Florida, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Connecticut | #527 | 5 | 1 in 2,465 |
| New York | #752 | 21 | 1 in 4,278 |
| Maryland | #777 | 6 | 1 in 4,007 |
| Massachusetts | #844 | 5 | 1 in 5,095 |
| North Carolina | #913 | 9 | 1 in 5,034 |
| Florida | #963 | 15 | 1 in 5,781 |
| Illinois | #1,307 | 7 | 1 in 8,232 |
| California | #1,344 | 21 | 1 in 9,701 |
| Texas | #1,404 | 17 | 1 in 9,841 |
| Ohio | #1,463 | 5 | 1 in 10,413 |
| Georgia | #1,499 | 5 | 1 in 9,610 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Nailah
- 22 spots since 2024 (#1,796 → #1,818)
- 591 spots since 2020 (#1,227 → #1,818)
- 381 spots since 2015 (#1,437 → #1,818)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2018 at #1,014 (256 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 6,645 girls born in 2018 were named Nailah (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,612 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 38.5% of all girls named Nailah (1,866) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 138 | #2,909 (1977) | #4,606 |
| 1980s | 206 | #2,940 (1980) | #4,062 |
| 1990s | 592 | #1,786 (1999) | #2,433 |
| 2000s | 1,212 | #1,444 (2006) | #1,695 |
| 2010s | 1,866 | #1,014 (2018) | #1,305 |
| 2020s | 834 | #1,227 (2020) | #1,569 |
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.
Nailah in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
More about 2016
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1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 11,145 of them was named Nailah, which outranked 92.3% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,439Kaylen160
- #1,439Maritza160
- #1,439Toni160
- #1,446Nailah159
- #1,446Audree159
- #1,446Dina159
- #1,446Haylie159
- #1,456Dior158
- #1,456Harlie158
- #1,456Janie158
Tied with 9 names at #1,446; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.