Nylah Girl
How popular is Nylah?
#503 girl name in 2025
590 baby girls were named Nylah in the US in 2025, making it the 503rd most popular girl name.
Nylah popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #503 for girls (▼ 53 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 590 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-18% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #438 in 2015, #402 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2019 (870 girls) |
| Highest rank | #363 in 2019 |
| First recorded | 1992 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.4% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Nylah 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 Nylah is most popular
Babies named Nylah per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- District of Columbia: 1.3 per 1,000 (15 girls)
- Maryland: 1.1 per 1,000 (114 girls)
- Mississippi: 1.1 per 1,000 (50 girls)
- South Carolina: 1.1 per 1,000 (95 girls)
- Louisiana: 1.0 per 1,000 (87 girls)
Nylah by decade
Girl names about as popular as Nylah
Questions
- Is Nylah a boy or girl name?
- Nylah is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Nylah were girls.
- How popular is the name Nylah?
- 590 baby girls were named Nylah in the US in 2025, making it the 503rd most popular girl name.
- When was Nylah most popular?
- Nylah peaked in 2019, when 870 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #363 in 2019.
- How many people are named Nylah?
- 13,739 babies have been named Nylah in the US since 1880. We estimate about 13,667 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 10.
- Where is Nylah most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Nylah was most common in District of Columbia, at 1.3 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.