Nuala
- #11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births
- Peak · girls
- 1965 · 9 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 363since 1948
Nuala over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Nuala has never cracked the top 4,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #11,932 | 7 |
| 2024 | #7,251 | 15 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 |
| 2018 | #9,806 | 10 |
| 2017 | #9,341 | 11 |
| 2016 | #9,411 | 11 |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 |
| 2014 | #8,485 | 13 |
| 2013 | #8,135 | 14 |
| 2012 | #6,341 | 20 |
| 2011 | #7,783 | 15 |
| 2010 | #10,451 | 10 |
| 2009 | #5,378 | 26 |
| 2008 | #10,807 | 10 |
| 2007 | #7,733 | 16 |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 |
| 2005 | #10,921 | 9 |
| 2004 | #8,716 | 12 |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 |
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| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 |
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| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 |
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| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 |
| 1970 | #5,061 | 10 |
| 1969 | #5,456 | 8 |
| 1968 | #5,147 | 8 |
| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 |
| 1966 | #5,273 | 7 |
| 1965 | #4,494 | 9 |
| 1964 | #5,474 | 7 |
| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 |
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| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 |
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| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 |
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| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 |
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| 1948 | #4,651 | 6 |
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First appearance
1948
The first year at least five girls were named Nuala! It came in at #4,651, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1949–1960, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Nuala is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Nuala in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · girls
Rising
- 4,681 spots since 2024 (#7,251 → #11,932)
- 3,156 spots since 2020 (#15,088 → #11,932)
- 1,066 spots since 2015 (#10,866 → #11,932)
Rise & fade · girls
17 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1948
- Peaked 1965 at #4,494 (9 births)
- Births halved by 1972, 7 yrs 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 70,658
- Highest: 1 in 70,658 girls born in 2009 were named Nuala (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 229,610 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #4,494 in 1965, was only 1 in 196,129 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 32.5% of all girls named Nuala (118) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 6 | #4,651 (1948) | #4,651 |
| 1950s | 10 | #5,301 (1950) | #5,565 |
| 1960s | 58 | #4,494 (1965) | #5,386 |
| 1970s | 20 | #5,061 (1970) | #7,269 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 5 | #14,411 (1999) | #14,411 |
| 2000s | 99 | #5,378 (2009) | #10,862 |
| 2010s | 118 | #6,341 (2012) | #9,616 |
| 2020s | 47 | #7,251 (2024) | #10,712 |
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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