Nylah
Nylah was given to 590 girls in 2025, #504 among girls’ names; 13,739 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,600 Americans named Nylah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nylah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nylah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Nylah is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nylah?
#504 among girls’ names, 2025
Nylah fell from #438 in 2015 to #504 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.40 to 0.37 per 1,000.
870 babies in 2019, the peak
Nylah peaked in 2019, when 870 girls were given it, #363 among girls’ names. The 590 births of 2025 are 68% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 590 | #504 | 0.37 |
| 2024 | 695 | #451 | 0.43 |
| 2023 | 805 | #383 | 0.50 |
| 2022 | 735 | #430 | 0.45 |
| 2021 | 790 | #400 | 0.48 |
| 2020 | 775 | #403 | 0.48 |
| 2019 | 870 | #363 | 0.52 |
| 2018 | 758 | #408 | 0.45 |
| 2017 | 719 | #441 | 0.42 |
| 2016 | 804 | #415 | 0.45 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 722 | #438 | 0.40 |
| 2014 | 743 | #429 | 0.42 |
| 2013 | 734 | #413 | 0.42 |
| 2012 | 704 | #444 | 0.40 |
| 2011 | 652 | #457 | 0.37 |
| 2010 | 486 | #605 | 0.27 |
| 2009 | 456 | #648 | 0.25 |
| 2008 | 349 | #822 | 0.18 |
| 2007 | 227 | #1,136 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 207 | #1,179 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 215 | #1,104 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 162 | #1,321 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 115 | #1,671 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 133 | #1,440 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 78 | #2,117 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 66 | #2,360 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,483 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 46 | #2,876 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,475 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,419 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,516 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,852 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nylah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nylah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nylah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nylah, and how old are they?
13,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 13,739 Americans ever recorded as Nylah. The median Nylah alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 7,211 people named Nylah (7,193 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,481 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 42 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,920 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 9,680 |
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 Nylah born?
The states with the most babies named Nylah are Texas, Florida and New York, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 56 | #567 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 50 | #373 | 1.3× |
| New York | 49 | #348 | 1.4× |
| California | 43 | #728 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 30 | #376 | 1.6× |
| South Carolina | 23 | #216 | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 21 | #531 | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 21 | #489 | 0.9× |
| Maryland | 20 | #264 | 1.6× |
| New Jersey | 19 | #414 | 1.2× |
Where Nylah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nylah is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1992 it was given 1.9 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 Nylah 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 51,942 babies since 1880, Nylah is the second most given (26% of them). In 2025 it was given to 590 of their 2,131 babies (28%), again the second 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 Nylah
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 Nylah and names like it
- Compare Nylah and NylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sNylah peaked in 2019.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nylah since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Nylah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Nylah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.