Nahla
Nahla was given to 60 girls in 2025, #2,850 among girls’ names; 3,236 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,210 Americans named Nahla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 8 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nahla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nahla mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Nahla is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nahla?
#2,850 among girls’ names, 2025
Nahla fell from #1,244 in 2015 to #2,850 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.11 to 0.04 per 1,000.
306 babies in 2011, the peak
Nahla peaked in 2011, when 306 girls were given it, #861 among girls’ names. The 60 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60 | #2,850 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 65 | #2,685 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 81 | #2,281 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 115 | #1,789 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 188 | #1,254 | 0.11 |
| 2020 | 157 | #1,396 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 128 | #1,653 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 141 | #1,547 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 176 | #1,328 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 201 | #1,226 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 197 | #1,244 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 202 | #1,212 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 258 | #977 | 0.15 |
| 2012 | 279 | #923 | 0.16 |
| 2011 | 306 | #861 | 0.17 |
| 2010 | 241 | #1,040 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 164 | #1,429 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 85 | #2,312 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,482 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,123 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,052 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,707 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,798 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,816 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,741 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,383 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,112 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,402 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,692 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,441 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,353 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,777 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,206 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,895 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,692 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nahla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nahla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nahla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nahla, and how old are they?
3,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,236 Americans ever recorded as Nahla. The median Nahla alive today is 12 years old; half are between 8 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 2,866 people named Nahla (2,864 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,592 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 37 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,210 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,960 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Nahla born?
The states with the most babies named Nahla are California, North Carolina and Virginia, with 76% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Virginia is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,689 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,390 | 1.5× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,140 | 1.1× |
| Minnesota | 6 | #808 | 0.3× |
Where Nahla is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nahla is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1977 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Nahla with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 24,352 babies since 1880, Nahla is the fourth most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 60 of their 1,038 babies (5.8%), the sixth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Nahla
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Nahla and names like it
- Compare Nahla and NalaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sNahla peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nahla since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Nahla.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Nahla alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.