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Nahal

Girls' name

Stream

Nahal has been given to 85 babies in the U.S. since 1979. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1997, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Nahal, 2022

1 in 677,000

Nahal over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nahal: meaning, origin, and history

Stream

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nahal means

Nahal means “stream”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Nahal is used in Hebrew.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈna.χal/ for Nahal.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 85 girls were recorded with the name Nahal between 1979 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1997; its best national rank was #10,472 in 1989.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Nahal?

Nahal had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nahal sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nahal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nahals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nahal was born before 1996 — so the typical Nahal is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
38.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
40.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
85
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1990s — 38.8% of all recorded uses (33).

Is Nahal rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1997 (8)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,472
1989

Spellings of Nahal

Nahal is not the most common spelling — Nataly is, with 17.2% against Nahal's 0.09%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Nahal is used

Across 1910–2025, Nahal was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Nahal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nahal around the world

Where Nahal ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2011–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1995–2005
    #775
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Nahal by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#10,472
1989
Peak year
1997
8 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
85
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nahal

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Nahal

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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