Nailea — #1777 US girls' name
1,332 babies named Nailea in U.S. Social Security records since 1988, with the highest year being 2024. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 90% of names given to girls today.
41% of everyone ever named Nailea was born in this single decade.
113 babies were named Nailea in 2024 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Nailea
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,332 babies named Nailea between 1988 and 2024, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nailea currently holds the #1777 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 113 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Nailea performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 544 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Nailea shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 432 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Arizona. In total, SSA state-level files list Nailea in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Nailea in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,332 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Nailea at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Nailea popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1988
- Peak year (2024)
- 113
- Annual births at peak — across 37 years of records
Currently ranks #1777 among girls.
1,332 total births across 37 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2024 with 113 births in a single year.
Nailea by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 544 births that decade — 41% of Nailea's all-time total
Nailea decade highlights
- Peak decade 544 births
- Runner-up 392 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Nailea's strongest decade
544 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 41% of all-time use.
Nailea by state
Where Nailea concentrates geographically — total births since 1988
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 432 | 32.4% |
| #2 | California | | 324 | 24.3% |
| #3 | Arizona | | 19 | 1.4% |
| #4 | New York | | 9 | 0.7% |
| #5 | Georgia | | 5 | 0.4% |
| #6 | Indiana | | 5 | 0.4% |
432 of 1,332 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 6 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 32.4% of nationwide
- California 24.3% of nationwide
- Arizona 1.4% of nationwide
- New York 0.7% of nationwide
- Georgia 0.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 6 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 32.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1988–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.