Nyla Girl
How popular is Nyla?
#236 girl name in 2025
1,315 baby girls were named Nyla in the US in 2025, making it the 236th most popular girl name.
Nyla popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #236 for girls (▼ 7 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 1,315 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+31% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #326 in 2015, #247 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2024 (1,344 girls) |
| Highest rank | #227 in 2021 |
| First recorded | 1915 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.9% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Nyla counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Nyla family of names ranked #163 for girls in 2025 (#160 the year before), with 2,061 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 Nyla is most popular
Babies named Nyla per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Delaware: 2.8 per 1,000 (32 girls)
- Mississippi: 2.1 per 1,000 (97 girls)
- Maryland: 1.8 per 1,000 (192 girls)
- Georgia: 1.7 per 1,000 (390 girls)
- Connecticut: 1.6 per 1,000 (94 girls)
Nyla by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 47 | #2,427 |
| 1920s | 245 | #1,365 |
| 1930s | 371 | #1,031 |
| 1940s | 506 | #851 |
| 1950s | 570 | #1,115 |
| 1960s | 271 | #1,724 |
| 1970s | 186 | #2,522 |
| 1980s | 184 | #3,343 |
| 1990s | 800 | #1,039 |
| 2000s | 6,472 | #361 |
| 2010s | 10,359 | #256 |
| 2020s | 7,703 | #227 |
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Questions
- Is Nyla a boy or girl name?
- Nyla is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Nyla were girls.
- How popular is the name Nyla?
- 1,315 baby girls were named Nyla in the US in 2025, making it the 236th most popular girl name.
- When was Nyla most popular?
- Nyla peaked in 2024, when 1,344 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #227 in 2021.
- How many people are named Nyla?
- 27,714 babies have been named Nyla in the US since 1880. We estimate about 26,661 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 12.
- Where is Nyla most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Nyla was most common in Delaware, at 2.8 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.