Nyla
#236 for girls in 2025, 1,315 births
- Peak · girls
- 2021 · 1,323 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 27,714since 1915
Nyla over time
Rank among girls' names. Nyla has never cracked the top 200 here.
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 | #236 | 1,315 |
| 2024 | #229 | 1,344 |
| 2023 | #249 | 1,246 |
| 2022 | #241 | 1,262 |
| 2021 | #227 | 1,323 |
| 2020 | #247 | 1,213 |
| 2019 | #256 | 1,275 |
| 2018 | #289 | 1,134 |
| 2017 | #304 | 1,082 |
| 2016 | #328 | 1,000 |
| 2015 | #326 | 1,002 |
| 2014 | #299 | 1,086 |
| 2013 | #313 | 1,033 |
| 2012 | #328 | 956 |
| 2011 | #315 | 1,000 |
| 2010 | #405 | 791 |
| 2009 | #394 | 801 |
| 2008 | #409 | 784 |
| 2007 | #446 | 718 |
| 2006 | #389 | 835 |
| 2005 | #361 | 869 |
| 2004 | #410 | 745 |
| 2003 | #478 | 615 |
| 2002 | #453 | 637 |
| 2001 | #865 | 264 |
| 2000 | #1,029 | 204 |
| 1999 | #1,066 | 189 |
| 1998 | #1,040 | 190 |
| 1997 | #1,298 | 134 |
| 1996 | #1,571 | 100 |
| 1995 | #1,955 | 70 |
| 1994 | #3,615 | 30 |
| 1993 | #3,987 | 26 |
| 1992 | #5,718 | 16 |
| 1991 | #5,181 | 18 |
| 1990 | #3,813 | 27 |
| 1989 | #5,545 | 15 |
| 1988 | #4,840 | 17 |
| 1987 | #3,983 | 21 |
| 1986 | #4,347 | 18 |
| 1985 | #4,282 | 18 |
| 1984 | #4,737 | 15 |
| 1983 | #4,884 | 14 |
| 1982 | #3,344 | 25 |
| 1981 | #3,532 | 23 |
| 1980 | #4,148 | 18 |
| 1979 | #3,903 | 19 |
| 1978 | #4,242 | 16 |
| 1977 | #3,366 | 22 |
| 1976 | #4,363 | 14 |
| 1975 | #4,141 | 15 |
| 1974 | #4,041 | 15 |
| 1973 | #2,914 | 23 |
| 1972 | #4,523 | 12 |
| 1971 | #3,166 | 21 |
| 1970 | #2,522 | 29 |
| 1969 | #3,102 | 19 |
| 1968 | #2,789 | 21 |
| 1967 | #2,558 | 23 |
| 1966 | #3,266 | 15 |
| 1965 | #2,411 | 25 |
| 1964 | #2,600 | 23 |
| 1963 | #2,252 | 28 |
| 1962 | #2,031 | 33 |
| 1961 | #1,788 | 41 |
| 1960 | #1,725 | 43 |
| 1959 | #1,695 | 42 |
| 1958 | #1,481 | 52 |
| 1957 | #1,344 | 62 |
| 1956 | #1,351 | 59 |
| 1955 | #1,130 | 78 |
| 1954 | #1,392 | 52 |
| 1953 | #1,178 | 67 |
| 1952 | #1,402 | 48 |
| 1951 | #1,116 | 69 |
| 1950 | #1,433 | 41 |
| 1949 | #1,323 | 48 |
| 1948 | #1,345 | 47 |
| 1947 | #1,302 | 49 |
| 1946 | #1,467 | 36 |
| 1945 | #1,175 | 45 |
| 1944 | #1,153 | 46 |
| 1943 | #1,027 | 60 |
| 1942 | #1,091 | 52 |
| 1941 | #851 | 73 |
| 1940 | #1,010 | 50 |
| 1939 | #1,308 | 32 |
| 1938 | #1,031 | 48 |
| 1937 | #1,048 | 46 |
| 1936 | #1,245 | 33 |
| 1935 | #1,101 | 40 |
| 1934 | #1,098 | 41 |
| 1933 | #1,197 | 35 |
| 1932 | #1,162 | 38 |
| 1931 | #1,243 | 34 |
| 1930 | #1,607 | 24 |
| 1929 | #1,447 | 28 |
| 1928 | #1,366 | 32 |
| 1927 | #1,486 | 30 |
| 1926 | #1,623 | 26 |
| 1925 | #1,891 | 21 |
| 1924 | #1,770 | 24 |
| 1923 | #1,782 | 23 |
| 1922 | #1,464 | 31 |
| 1921 | #2,120 | 18 |
| 1920 | #2,731 | 12 |
| 1919 | #2,813 | 11 |
| 1918 | #2,674 | 12 |
| 1917 | #2,428 | 13 |
| 1916 | #3,919 | 6 |
| 1915 | #4,274 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Nyla! It came in at #4,274, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1915–1916, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
Where Nyla is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Georgia#539 · 1 in 3,564
- New Jersey#716 · 1 in 5,220
- Pennsylvania#716 · 1 in 5,826
- North Carolina#823 · 1 in 6,676
- Florida#1,086 · 1 in 9,169
Best ever in a state: #35 in Delaware, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | #539 | 12 | 1 in 3,564 |
| New Jersey | #716 | 8 | 1 in 5,220 |
| Pennsylvania | #716 | 10 | 1 in 5,826 |
| North Carolina | #823 | 6 | 1 in 6,676 |
| Florida | #1,086 | 8 | 1 in 9,169 |
| New York | #1,100 | 11 | 1 in 9,182 |
| Ohio | #1,198 | 5 | 1 in 12,367 |
| Illinois | #1,468 | 5 | 1 in 13,984 |
| California | #1,643 | 13 | 1 in 17,142 |
| Texas | #1,829 | 7 | 1 in 19,984 |
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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 Nyla
- 7 spots since 2024 (#229 → #236)
- 11 spots since 2020 (#247 → #236)
- 90 spots since 2015 (#326 → #236)
- Biggest jump: 412 spots in 2002 (#865 → #453)
- Biggest drop: 240 spots in 1942 (#851 → #1,091)
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 2021 at #227 (1,323 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 26 yrs · run 2001–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,205 girls born in 2024 were named Nyla (0.08%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,222 girls born in 2025 (0.08%)
- Its best rank, #227 in 2021, was only 1 in 1,240 (0.08%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 37.4% of all girls named Nyla (10,359) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 47 | #2,428 (1917) | #3,222 |
| 1920s | 245 | #1,366 (1928) | #1,768 |
| 1930s | 371 | #1,031 (1938) | #1,204 |
| 1940s | 506 | #851 (1941) | #1,174 |
| 1950s | 570 | #1,116 (1951) | #1,352 |
| 1960s | 271 | #1,725 (1960) | #2,452 |
| 1970s | 186 | #2,522 (1970) | #3,718 |
| 1980s | 184 | #3,344 (1982) | #4,364 |
| 1990s | 800 | #1,040 (1998) | #2,924 |
| 2000s | 6,472 | #361 (2005) | #523 |
| 2010s | 10,359 | #256 (2019) | #316 |
| 2020s | 7,703 | #227 (2021) | #238 |
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.
Nyla in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 12,990 of them was named Nyla, which outranked 92.0% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,291Chynna135
- #1,291Jacquelin135
- #1,291Suzanna135
- #1,298Nyla134
- #1,298America134
- #1,298Halley134
- #1,298Jesenia134
- #1,303Amberly133
- #1,303Aria133
- #1,303Cathy133
Tied with 4 names at #1,298; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.