Nyla
Nyla was given to 1,315 girls in 2025, #236 among girls’ names; 27,714 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 26,500 Americans named Nyla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 19.
Nyla came back: it left the girls’ top 1,000 after 1941 and returned in 2001.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nyla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nyla mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Nyla is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nyla?
#236 among girls’ names, 2025
Nyla rose from #326 in 2015 to #236 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.56 to 0.82 per 1,000.
1,344 babies in 2024, the peak
Nyla peaked in 2024, when 1,344 girls were given it, #229 among girls’ names. The 1,315 births of 2025 are 98% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,315 | #236 | 0.82 |
| 2024 | 1,344 | #229 | 0.83 |
| 2023 | 1,246 | #250 | 0.78 |
| 2022 | 1,262 | #241 | 0.77 |
| 2021 | 1,323 | #227 | 0.81 |
| 2020 | 1,213 | #247 | 0.75 |
| 2019 | 1,275 | #256 | 0.76 |
| 2018 | 1,134 | #289 | 0.67 |
| 2017 | 1,082 | #304 | 0.63 |
| 2016 | 1,000 | #328 | 0.56 |
Every recorded year (111)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,002 | #326 | 0.56 |
| 2014 | 1,086 | #299 | 0.61 |
| 2013 | 1,033 | #313 | 0.59 |
| 2012 | 956 | #328 | 0.54 |
| 2011 | 1,000 | #315 | 0.57 |
| 2010 | 791 | #405 | 0.44 |
| 2009 | 801 | #394 | 0.44 |
| 2008 | 784 | #409 | 0.41 |
| 2007 | 718 | #446 | 0.37 |
| 2006 | 835 | #389 | 0.44 |
| 2005 | 869 | #362 | 0.47 |
| 2004 | 745 | #410 | 0.41 |
| 2003 | 615 | #478 | 0.34 |
| 2002 | 637 | #453 | 0.35 |
| 2001 | 264 | #869 | 0.15 |
| 2000 | 204 | #1,031 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 189 | #1,066 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 190 | #1,041 | 0.11 |
| 1997 | 134 | #1,300 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 100 | #1,572 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 70 | #1,968 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,673 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 26 | #4,066 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,918 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,327 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 27 | #3,873 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,754 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,993 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,088 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,482 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,397 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,898 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,064 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 25 | #3,390 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 23 | #3,594 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,259 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 19 | #4,001 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,396 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,450 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,523 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,293 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,170 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 23 | #2,988 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,711 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 21 | #3,234 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 29 | #2,560 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 19 | #3,166 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 21 | #2,846 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,613 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,360 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 25 | #2,448 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 23 | #2,645 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 28 | #2,285 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 33 | #2,061 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 41 | #1,799 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 43 | #1,740 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 42 | #1,712 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 52 | #1,490 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 62 | #1,353 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 59 | #1,358 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 78 | #1,134 | 0.04 |
| 1954 | 52 | #1,402 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 67 | #1,184 | 0.04 |
| 1952 | 48 | #1,412 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 69 | #1,129 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 41 | #1,445 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 48 | #1,331 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 47 | #1,353 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 49 | #1,308 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 36 | #1,474 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 45 | #1,181 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 46 | #1,168 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 60 | #1,033 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 52 | #1,098 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 73 | #856 | 0.06 |
| 1940 | 50 | #1,019 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 32 | #1,322 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 48 | #1,042 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 46 | #1,059 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 33 | #1,262 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 40 | #1,114 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 41 | #1,119 | 0.04 |
| 1933 | 35 | #1,216 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 38 | #1,172 | 0.04 |
| 1931 | 34 | #1,254 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 24 | #1,647 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 28 | #1,475 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 32 | #1,385 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 30 | #1,512 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 26 | #1,652 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 21 | #1,929 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 24 | #1,797 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 23 | #1,817 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 31 | #1,497 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 18 | #2,174 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,846 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,949 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 12 | #2,784 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,514 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,276 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,783 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nyla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nyla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 111 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nyla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nyla, and how old are they?
26,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 27,714 Americans ever recorded as Nyla. The median Nyla alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 16,496 people named Nyla (16,467 women and girls, 29 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 19,434 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 250 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 707 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 284 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 442 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 9,640 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 15,200 |
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 Nyla born?
The states with the most babies named Nyla are Texas, California and Florida, with 25% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 119 | #292 | 0.7× |
| California | 104 | #317 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 98 | #188 | 1.1× |
| New York | 80 | #218 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 76 | #131 | 1.7× |
| North Carolina | 55 | #199 | 1.3× |
| Virginia | 52 | #152 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 49 | #232 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 46 | #219 | 0.9× |
| Maryland | 44 | #101 | 1.4× |
Where Nyla is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nyla is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1915 it was given 1.7 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 Nyla 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 51,981 babies since 1880, Nyla is the most given (53% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,315 of their 2,148 babies (61%), again the 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 Nyla
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 Nyla and names like it
- Compare Nyla and NylahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sNyla peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nyla since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Nyla.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Nyla alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.