Nylah
#503 for girls in 2025, 590 births
- Peak · girls
- 2019 · 870 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 13,739since 1992
Nylah over time
Rank among girls' names. Nylah has never cracked the top 300 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 | #503 | 590 |
| 2024 | #450 | 695 |
| 2023 | #383 | 805 |
| 2022 | #430 | 735 |
| 2021 | #400 | 790 |
| 2020 | #402 | 775 |
| 2019 | #363 | 870 |
| 2018 | #408 | 758 |
| 2017 | #441 | 719 |
| 2016 | #415 | 804 |
| 2015 | #438 | 722 |
| 2014 | #429 | 743 |
| 2013 | #412 | 734 |
| 2012 | #444 | 704 |
| 2011 | #457 | 652 |
| 2010 | #604 | 486 |
| 2009 | #648 | 456 |
| 2008 | #819 | 349 |
| 2007 | #1,133 | 227 |
| 2006 | #1,173 | 207 |
| 2005 | #1,104 | 215 |
| 2004 | #1,314 | 162 |
| 2003 | #1,668 | 115 |
| 2002 | #1,432 | 133 |
| 2001 | #2,115 | 78 |
| 2000 | #2,332 | 66 |
| 1999 | #3,443 | 36 |
| 1998 | #2,846 | 46 |
| 1997 | #4,370 | 24 |
| 1996 | #4,306 | 24 |
| 1995 | #6,257 | 14 |
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| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Nylah! It came in at #13,317, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1992–1994, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Nylah is popular in 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- District of Columbia#181 · 1 in 500
- Pennsylvania#287 · 1 in 1,401
- New Jersey#320 · 1 in 1,533
- Connecticut#340 · 1 in 1,577
- Virginia#343 · 1 in 1,595
Best ever in a state: #85 in District of Columbia, 2014.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | #181 | 6 | 1 in 500 |
| Pennsylvania | #287 | 39 | 1 in 1,401 |
| New Jersey | #320 | 25 | 1 in 1,533 |
| Connecticut | #340 | 8 | 1 in 1,577 |
| Virginia | #343 | 23 | 1 in 1,595 |
| Georgia | #356 | 31 | 1 in 1,636 |
| Louisiana | #356 | 14 | 1 in 1,475 |
| New York | #360 | 51 | 1 in 1,858 |
| Maryland | #382 | 14 | 1 in 1,766 |
| Missouri | #467 | 12 | 1 in 2,334 |
| Florida | #470 | 34 | 1 in 2,422 |
| Mississippi | #489 | 6 | 1 in 1,961 |
| Michigan | #523 | 15 | 1 in 2,850 |
| North Carolina | #578 | 16 | 1 in 2,901 |
| South Carolina | #657 | 6 | 1 in 3,093 |
| Alabama | #797 | 5 | 1 in 4,003 |
| Indiana | #845 | 7 | 1 in 4,528 |
| Ohio | #862 | 10 | 1 in 5,444 |
| Wisconsin | #867 | 5 | 1 in 4,902 |
| Illinois | #899 | 12 | 1 in 5,270 |
| Tennessee | #903 | 6 | 1 in 5,086 |
| California | #928 | 39 | 1 in 5,597 |
| Washington | #947 | 6 | 1 in 5,227 |
| Texas | #961 | 29 | 1 in 5,747 |
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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 Nylah
- 53 spots since 2024 (#450 → #503)
- 101 spots since 2020 (#402 → #503)
- 65 spots since 2015 (#438 → #503)
- Biggest jump: 314 spots in 2008 (#1,133 → #819)
- Biggest drop: 67 spots in 2024 (#383 → #450)
- Debuted 1992
- Peaked 2019 at #363 (870 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 18 yrs · run 2008–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,929 girls born in 2019 were named Nylah (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,724 girls born in 2025 (0.04%)
- 52.3% of all girls named Nylah (7,192) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 149 | #2,846 (1998) | #5,757 |
| 2000s | 2,008 | #648 (2009) | #1,374 |
| 2010s | 7,192 | #363 (2019) | #441 |
| 2020s | 4,390 | #383 (2023) | #428 |
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.
Nylah in 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
More about 2009
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1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 4,029 of them was named Nylah, which outranked 96.8% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.