Nayla
Nayla was given to 225 girls in 2025, #1,078 among girls’ names; 3,579 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,550 Americans named Nayla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nayla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nayla?
#1,078 among girls’ names, 2025
Nayla rose from #1,446 in 2015 to #1,078 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.09 to 0.14 per 1,000.
225 babies in 2025, the peak
Nayla peaked in 2025, when 225 girls were given it, #1,078 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 148 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 225 | #1,078 | 0.14 |
| 2024 | 148 | #1,480 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 169 | #1,342 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 183 | #1,293 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 183 | #1,270 | 0.11 |
| 2020 | 172 | #1,293 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 184 | #1,265 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 180 | #1,278 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 158 | #1,439 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 152 | #1,504 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 160 | #1,446 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 123 | #1,712 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 149 | #1,492 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 119 | #1,741 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 121 | #1,718 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 111 | #1,839 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 124 | #1,766 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 90 | #2,215 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 99 | #2,065 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 87 | #2,221 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 74 | #2,396 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 88 | #2,082 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 71 | #2,358 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 88 | #1,998 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 49 | #2,947 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 35 | #3,708 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 42 | #3,132 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 39 | #3,206 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,209 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,537 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,370 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,896 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,926 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,311 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,098 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,489 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,952 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,801 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,197 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,553 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,054 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,563 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,791 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nayla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nayla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nayla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nayla, and how old are they?
3,550 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,579 Americans ever recorded as Nayla. The median Nayla alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 2,510 people named Nayla (2,507 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,523 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 6 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 121 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,250 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,170 |
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 Nayla born?
The states with the most babies named Nayla are Texas, New York and California, with 39% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 27 | #1,055 | 1.5× |
| New York | 23 | #723 | 1.5× |
| California | 20 | #1,262 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 15 | #1,042 | 1.5× |
| Massachusetts | 13 | #440 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 12 | #653 | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #801 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 12 | #782 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,174 | 0.5× |
| Washington | 8 | #790 | 0.2× |
Where Nayla is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nayla is most over-represented in Texas: since 1979 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 Nayla 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 49,841 babies since 1880, Nayla is the fourth most given (7.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 225 of their 2,124 babies (11%), 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 Nayla
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 Nayla and names like it
- Compare Nayla and NayeliBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sNayla peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nayla since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Nayla.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Nayla alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.