Niyla
Niyla was given to 19 girls in 2025, #6,270 among girls’ names; 582 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Niyla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Niyla?
#6,270 among girls’ names, 2025
Niyla fell from #4,825 in 2015 to #6,270 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.2 to 11.8 per million.
44 babies in 2012, the peak
Niyla peaked in 2012, when 44 girls were given it, #3,631 among girls’ names. The 19 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,270 | 11.8 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,856 | 10.5 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,433 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,758 | 13.4 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,889 | 12.8 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,136 | 21.0 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,622 | 17.9 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,319 | 19.4 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,481 | 13.9 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,416 | 14.1 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #4,825 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,900 | 21.8 |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,979 | 21.7 |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,631 | 25.0 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,440 | 18.8 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,741 | 13.5 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,490 | 11.4 |
| 2008 | 19 | #7,001 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,998 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,760 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,715 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,590 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,525 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,844 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,901 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,504 | 3.3 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,433 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Niyla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Niyla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Niyla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Niyla, and how old are they?
An estimated 578 Americans named Niyla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 336 people named Niyla (336 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 463 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% 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 Niyla?
Niyla is a less common spelling of Nyla: SSA has recorded 582 Niyla and 27,714 Nyla since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 51,925 babies since 1880, Niyla is the sixth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 2,114 babies (<1%), again the sixth most given.
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 Niyla
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 Niyla and names like it
- Compare Niyla and NylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Niyla since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Niyla.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Niyla alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.