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Naila

#1,728 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Nail

Naila has been given to 3,235 babies in the U.S. since 1953. In 2025 it ranked #1,728 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 231 recorded.

Babies named Naila, 2025

1 in 28,100

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Naila: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Nail

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Naila means

Naila is a feminine form of Nail.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nail.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,235 girls were recorded with the name Naila between 1953 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 231 in 2019; its best national rank was #1,085 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,383 in 2020 to #1,728 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,036 in 2015 to #1,728 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.

How common is Naila?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 28,100
118 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 13,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,728
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
19,475 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Naila 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 19,475 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Naila. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nailas were born

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

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
35.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,235
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 35.8% of all recorded uses (1,157).

Is Naila 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
−266
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−345
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+308
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.22×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
51.1%
Peak was 2019 (231)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,085
2019

Spellings of Naila

Naila is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 13.3% against Naila's 0.12%.

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 Naila is used

Across 2016–2025, Naila was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 4,545 girls, against 1 in 9,844 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 50,000).

222 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 4,545
  2. 2New York1 in 5,882
  3. 3Florida1 in 7,143
  4. 4Texas1 in 8,333
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 9,091
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 9,091
  7. 7Arizona1 in 10,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 10,000

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.

Naila around the world

Where Naila 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
    1996–2025
    #667
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1980–1987
    #582
    in 1987
  • Ireland
    2025–2025
    #718
    in 2025
  • France
    1968–2025
    #229
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #1,109
    in 2024

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

Notable people named Naila

People whose public names include Naila, 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.

Naila by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,728
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 345
Best rank ever
#1,085
2019
Peak year
2019
231 that year
First recorded
1953
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,235
Count in 2025
118

Names similar to Naila

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

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Names with a curve like Naila

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

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Sibling names for Naila

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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