Nayla — #1474 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Nayla

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,353 babies named Nayla between 1979 and 2024, spanning 46 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nayla currently holds the #1474 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 184 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nayla performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,457 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Nayla shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 532 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Nayla in 20 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nayla 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 3,353 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.