Nailea
Nailea was given to 130 girls in 2025, #1,606 among girls’ names; 1,462 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,450 Americans named Nailea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 4 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nailea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nailea?
#1,606 among girls’ names, 2025
Nailea rose from #5,079 in 2015 to #1,606 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 15.1 to 80.9 per million.
130 babies in 2025, the peak
Nailea peaked in 2025, when 130 girls were given it, #1,606 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 113 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 130 | #1,606 | 80.9 |
| 2024 | 113 | #1,786 | 69.7 |
| 2023 | 81 | #2,282 | 50.5 |
| 2022 | 85 | #2,223 | 51.8 |
| 2021 | 69 | #2,551 | 42.1 |
| 2020 | 44 | #3,482 | 27.2 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,269 | 14.9 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,941 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,476 | 13.9 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,947 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #5,079 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,860 | 16.2 |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,829 | 22.8 |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,970 | 22.1 |
| 2011 | 43 | #3,643 | 24.4 |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,372 | 19.1 |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,286 | 27.8 |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,203 | 28.0 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,770 | 16.1 |
| 2006 | 56 | #3,044 | 29.5 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,915 | 14.6 |
| 2004 | 46 | #3,308 | 25.1 |
| 2003 | 62 | #2,597 | 33.9 |
| 2002 | 110 | #1,678 | 61.2 |
| 2001 | 60 | #2,554 | 33.3 |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,963 | 26.4 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,827 | 10.1 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,010 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,899 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,267 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,196 | 10.3 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,348 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,473 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,942 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nailea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nailea has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nailea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nailea, and how old are they?
1,450 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,462 Americans ever recorded as Nailea. The median Nailea alive today is 14 years old; half are between 4 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 773 people named Nailea (770 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 943 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 66 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 671 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 712 |
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 Nailea born?
The states with the most babies named Nailea are California, Texas and Arizona, with 91% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 46 | #683 | 1.9× |
| Texas | 29 | #999 | 3.0× |
| Arizona | 11 | #620 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,093 | 0.1× |
Where Nailea is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nailea is most over-represented in Texas: since 1988 it was given 3.0 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 Nailea 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 23,944 babies since 1880, Nailea is the sixth most given (6.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 130 of their 1,037 babies (13%), the third 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 Nailea
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 Nailea and names like it
- Compare Nailea and NalaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sNailea peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nailea since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Nailea.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Nailea alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.