Nala Girl
How popular is Nala?
#856 girl name in 2025
317 baby girls were named Nala in the US in 2025, making it the 856th most popular girl name.
Nala popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #856 for girls (▼ 104 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 317 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (+11% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #949 in 2015, #695 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2019 (428 girls) |
| Highest rank | #675 in 2019 |
| First recorded | 1979 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Nala counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Nala family of names ranked #664 for girls in 2025 (#591 the year before), with 408 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Nala is most popular
Babies named Nala per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- District of Columbia: 0.5 per 1,000 (6 girls)
- Georgia: 0.4 per 1,000 (102 girls)
- Delaware: 0.4 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- Louisiana: 0.4 per 1,000 (35 girls)
- South Carolina: 0.4 per 1,000 (35 girls)
Nala by decade
Girl names about as popular as Nala
Questions
- Is Nala a boy or girl name?
- Nala is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Nala were girls.
- How popular is the name Nala?
- 317 baby girls were named Nala in the US in 2025, making it the 856th most popular girl name.
- When was Nala most popular?
- Nala peaked in 2019, when 428 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #675 in 2019.
- How many people are named Nala?
- 6,138 babies have been named Nala in the US since 1880. We estimate about 6,105 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 9.
- Where is Nala most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Nala was most common in District of Columbia, at 0.5 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.