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Nahla

#2,850 in 2025Girls' name

A drink of water

Nahla has been given to 3,236 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #2,850 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 306 recorded.

Babies named Nahla, 2025

1 in 55,300

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nahla: meaning, origin, and history

A drink of water

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nahla means

Nahla means “a drink of water”.

Origin, language, and formation

Nahla is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,236 girls were recorded with the name Nahla between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 306 in 2011; its best national rank was #861 in 2011.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,396 in 2020 to #2,850 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,244 in 2015 to #2,850 in 2025.

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 Nahla?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 55,300
60 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 26,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,850
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
38,299 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nahla 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 2025 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 38,299 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nahla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nahlas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nahla was born before 2014 — so the typical Nahla is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
65.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,236
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 65.8% of all recorded uses (2,129).

Is Nahla 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
−165
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,454
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,606
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.30×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
19.6%
Peak was 2011 (306)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#861
2011

Spellings of Nahla

Nahla is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 21.7% against Nahla's 0.20%.

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 Nahla is used

Across 2016–2025, Nahla was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 7,143 girls, against 1 in 13,829 across all states with data. It was least common in Missouri (1 in 50,000).

214 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in 7,143
  2. 2Florida1 in 7,692
  3. 3Georgia1 in 7,692
  4. 4New York1 in 10,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 10,000
  6. 6Virginia1 in 10,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 12,500
  8. 8New Jersey1 in 12,500

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.

Nahla around the world

Where Nahla 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
    2001–2025
    #1,584
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2010–2013
    #816
    in 2013
  • Ireland
    2021–2021
    #764
    in 2021
  • France
    1973–2025
    #1,273
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2008–2024
    #1,968
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1994–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Nahla

People whose public names include Nahla, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Nahla by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,850
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,454
Best rank ever
#861
2011
Peak year
2011
306 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,236
Count in 2025
60

Names similar to Nahla

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

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Names with a curve like Nahla

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Nahla, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Nahla

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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