Naylah — #4837 US girls' name
634 babies named Naylah in U.S. Social Security records since 1996, with the highest year being 2016. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 73% of names given to girls today.
56% of everyone ever named Naylah was born in this single decade.
49 babies were named Naylah in 2016 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Naylah
The Social Security Administration has registered 634 babies named Naylah between 1996 and 2024, spanning 29 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Naylah currently holds the #4837 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 49 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Naylah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 354 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Naylah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 59 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Naylah in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Naylah 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 634 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.
Naylah at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Naylah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1996
- Peak year (2016)
- 49
- Annual births at peak — across 29 years of records
Currently ranks #4837 among girls.
634 total births across 29 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2016 with 49 births in a single year.
Naylah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 354 births that decade — 56% of Naylah's all-time total
Naylah decade highlights
- Peak decade 354 births
- Runner-up 163 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Naylah's strongest decade
354 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 56% of all-time use.
Naylah by state
Where Naylah concentrates geographically — total births since 1996
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 59 | 9.3% |
| #2 | California | | 40 | 6.3% |
| #3 | Florida | | 32 | 5.0% |
| #4 | New York | | 22 | 3.5% |
| #5 | Massachusetts | | 5 | 0.8% |
59 of 634 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 5 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 9.3% of nationwide
- California 6.3% of nationwide
- Florida 5.0% of nationwide
- New York 3.5% of nationwide
- Massachusetts 0.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 5 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 9.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile 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, 1996–2024 (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.