Nyla

Where Nyla comes from

The dictionaries list Nyla as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1915
    First appearance
    #4,274 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1972
    Nyla Ali Khan born
    Indian academic
  3. 1986
    Nyla Innuksuk born
    Inuit film director
  4. 2021
    Peak, #227
    1,323 babies named Nyla — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Nyla Ali Khan · Indian academic, born 1972
  • Nyla Innuksuk · Inuit film director, born 1986

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.