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Nahila

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Nahila has been given to 17 babies in the U.S. since 2007. 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 2017, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Nahila, 2017

1 in 511,000

Nahila 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nahila: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nahila means

Nahila is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Nahila is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 17 girls were recorded with the name Nahila between 2007 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2017; its best national rank was #13,685 in 2017.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Nahila?

Nahila had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 511,000
7 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only
1 in 247,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
354,210 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nahila 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 2017 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 354,210 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nahila. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nahilas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nahila was born before 2010 — so the typical Nahila is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
70.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
17
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 70.6% of all recorded uses (12).

Is Nahila 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 2017 (7)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#13,685
2017

Spellings of Nahila

Nahila is not the most common spelling — Camila is, with 34.2% against Nahila's <0.01%.

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.

Nahila around the world

Where Nahila 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.

  • France
    1991–2025
    #4,093
    in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Nahila 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
#13,685
2017
Peak year
2017
7 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
17
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nahila

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

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Sibling names for Nahila

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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