Nielah — girls' name
21 babies named Nielah in U.S. Social Security records since 1993, with the highest year being 1993. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
48% of everyone ever named Nielah was born in this single decade.
6 babies were named Nielah in 1993 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Nielah
The Social Security Administration has registered 21 babies named Nielah between 1993 and 2011, spanning 19 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nielah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2011. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 6 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Nielah performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 10 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Nielah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Nielah 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 21 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.
Nielah at a glance
Last recorded 2011Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Nielah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2011–1993
- Peak year (1993)
- 6
- Annual births at peak — across 19 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2011.
21 total births across 19 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1993 with 6 births in a single year.
Nielah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 10 births that decade — 48% of Nielah's all-time total
Nielah decade highlights
- Peak decade 10 births
- Runner-up 6 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Nielah's strongest decade
10 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 48% of all-time use.
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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, 1993–2011 (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.