Nalah
Nalah was given to 31 girls in 2025, #4,520 among girls’ names; 1,001 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nalah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nalah?
#4,520 among girls’ names, 2025
Nalah fell from #2,878 in 2015 to #4,520 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 34.2 to 19.3 per million.
78 babies in 2020, the peak
Nalah peaked in 2020, when 78 girls were given it, #2,298 among girls’ names. The 31 births of 2025 are 40% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,520 | 19.3 |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,352 | 20.4 |
| 2023 | 54 | #3,075 | 33.7 |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,516 | 27.4 |
| 2021 | 61 | #2,811 | 37.2 |
| 2020 | 78 | #2,298 | 48.3 |
| 2019 | 62 | #2,744 | 36.9 |
| 2018 | 69 | #2,552 | 40.6 |
| 2017 | 61 | #2,809 | 35.3 |
| 2016 | 69 | #2,585 | 38.9 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 61 | #2,878 | 34.2 |
| 2014 | 44 | #3,568 | 24.6 |
| 2013 | 67 | #2,651 | 38.2 |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,076 | 31.2 |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,048 | 21.0 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,826 | 16.9 |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,549 | 18.0 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,993 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,540 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,723 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,546 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,710 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,186 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,175 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,976 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,089 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,366 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,101 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,020 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nalah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nalah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nalah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nalah, and how old are they?
An estimated 994 Americans named Nalah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 14. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 533 people named Nalah (531 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 714 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Nalah?
Nalah is a less common spelling of Nala: SSA has recorded 1,001 Nalah and 6,138 Nala since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 24,222 babies since 1880, Nalah is the seventh most given (4.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 31 of their 978 babies (3.2%), the eighth 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 Nalah
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 Nalah and names like it
- Compare Nalah and NalaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Nalah.
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