Nylah — #452 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Nylah

The Social Security Administration has registered 13,141 babies named Nylah between 1992 and 2024, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nylah currently holds the #452 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 869 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nylah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 7,190 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Nylah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,174 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Nylah in 40 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nylah 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 13,141 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.