Nallah
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nallah has been given to 53 babies in the U.S. since 2011. 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 2016, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Nallah, 2019
1 in 434,000
Nallah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Nallah?
Nallah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 434,000
- 8 of 3,472,229 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 210,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 300,847 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nallah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 300,847 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nallah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nallahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nallah was born before 2016 — so the typical Nallah is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 53
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (53).
Is Nallah 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2016 (10)
- Years since peak
- 9
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 46.3% average annual change
Spellings of Nallah
Nallah is not the most common spelling — Aleah is, with 8.5% against Nallah's 0.03%.
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.
Nallah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nallah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nallah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.