Nayla
#1,076 for girls in 2025, 225 births
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 225 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,579since 1979
Nayla over time
Rank among girls' names. Nayla 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 | #1,076 | 225 |
| 2024 | #1,472 | 148 |
| 2023 | #1,339 | 169 |
| 2022 | #1,292 | 183 |
| 2021 | #1,269 | 183 |
| 2020 | #1,291 | 172 |
| 2019 | #1,259 | 184 |
| 2018 | #1,276 | 180 |
| 2017 | #1,436 | 158 |
| 2016 | #1,496 | 152 |
| 2015 | #1,437 | 160 |
| 2014 | #1,706 | 123 |
| 2013 | #1,487 | 149 |
| 2012 | #1,733 | 119 |
| 2011 | #1,715 | 121 |
| 2010 | #1,830 | 111 |
| 2009 | #1,756 | 124 |
| 2008 | #2,206 | 90 |
| 2007 | #2,059 | 99 |
| 2006 | #2,206 | 87 |
| 2005 | #2,379 | 74 |
| 2004 | #2,067 | 88 |
| 2003 | #2,346 | 71 |
| 2002 | #1,984 | 88 |
| 2001 | #2,924 | 49 |
| 2000 | #3,664 | 35 |
| 1999 | #3,099 | 42 |
| 1998 | #3,173 | 39 |
| 1997 | #4,125 | 26 |
| 1996 | #4,453 | 23 |
| 1995 | #5,221 | 18 |
| 1994 | #5,713 | 16 |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 |
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| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 |
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| 1983 | #6,212 | 10 |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 |
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| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Nayla! It came in at #9,010, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1980–1981, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Nayla is popular in 2019
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#661 · 1 in 3,530
- Texas#798 · 1 in 4,285
- New York#831 · 1 in 4,468
- Florida#872 · 1 in 4,976
- Illinois#998 · 1 in 5,731
Best ever in a state: #180 in Rhode Island, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Massachusetts | #661 | 7 | 1 in 3,530 |
| Texas | #798 | 37 | 1 in 4,285 |
| New York | #831 | 19 | 1 in 4,468 |
| Florida | #872 | 17 | 1 in 4,976 |
| Illinois | #998 | 9 | 1 in 5,731 |
| New Jersey | #1,020 | 6 | 1 in 5,853 |
| Virginia | #1,052 | 6 | 1 in 5,881 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,251 | 6 | 1 in 8,315 |
| California | #1,352 | 19 | 1 in 9,714 |
| Georgia | #1,494 | 5 | 1 in 9,273 |
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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 Nayla
- 396 spots since 2024 (#1,472 → #1,076)
- 215 spots since 2020 (#1,291 → #1,076)
- 361 spots since 2015 (#1,437 → #1,076)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 2025 at #1,076 (225 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 7,143 girls born in 2025 were named Nayla (0.01%)
- 40.7% of all girls named Nayla (1,457) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 6 | #9,010 (1979) | #9,010 |
| 1980s | 47 | #6,212 (1983) | #9,238 |
| 1990s | 184 | #3,099 (1999) | #6,479 |
| 2000s | 805 | #1,756 (2009) | #2,359 |
| 2010s | 1,457 | #1,259 (2019) | #1,538 |
| 2020s | 1,080 | #1,076 (2025) | #1,290 |
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.
Nayla in 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 9,122 of them was named Nayla, which outranked 93.0% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,255Lincoln185
- #1,255Rosalind185
- #1,255Samiyah185
- #1,259Nayla184
- #1,259Brynley184
- #1,259Carlee184
- #1,259Charity184
- #1,267Annelise183
- #1,267Cambria183
- #1,267Coral183
Tied with 7 names at #1,259; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.