Niala

Peak · girls
2016 · 15 births
Debut · girls
9 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
175
since 2002

Niala over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Niala has never cracked the top 7,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank200020102020peak #7,602, 2016girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#14,9425
2024#12,1617
2023#12,1977
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2021#12,2067
2020#13,4536
2019#8,59712
2018#15,6825
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2016#7,60215
2015#11,8358
2014#13,0697
2013#10,23510
2012#9,71111
2011#12,1538
2010#9,23112
2009#11,4599
2008#9,47612
2007#15,4916
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2005#13,0107
2004#12,7617
2003#15,7845
2002#10,2469
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First appearance
2002

The first year at least five girls were named Niala! It came in at #10,246, and was given to 9 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 2006, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Niala is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more girls named Niala in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Niala
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 1,489 spots since 2020 (#13,453 → #14,942)
Rise & fade · girls
14 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 2002
  • Peaked 2016 at #7,602 (15 births)
  • Births halved by 2017, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 118,135
  • Highest: 1 in 118,135 girls born in 2016 were named Niala (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 321,453 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 50.3% of all girls named Niala (88) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
2000s55#9,476 (2008)#12,604
2010s88#7,602 (2016)#10,902
2020s32#12,161 (2024)#12,992

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.

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