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Nayla

#1,078 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Naila

Nayla has been given to 3,579 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #1,078 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 225 recorded.

Babies named Nayla, 2025

1 in 14,700

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nayla: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Naila

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nayla means

Nayla is a alternate transcription of Naila.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Naila.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,579 girls were recorded with the name Nayla between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 225 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,078 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,293 in 2020 to #1,078 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,446 in 2015 to #1,078 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 Nayla?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 14,700
225 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 7,140
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,078
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
10,214 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nayla 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 10,214 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nayla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Naylas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nayla was born before 2015 — so the typical Nayla is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,579
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 40.7% of all recorded uses (1,457).

Is Nayla 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
+402
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+215
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+368
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.41×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (225)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,078
2025

Spellings of Nayla

Nayla is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 15.3% against Nayla's 0.16%.

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 Nayla is used

Across 2016–2025, Nayla was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 3,704 girls, against 1 in 8,055 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

127 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 3,704
  2. 2Florida1 in 4,762
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 4,762
  4. 4New York1 in 4,762
  5. 5Rhode Island1 in 5,263
  6. 6Texas1 in 5,882
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 6,667
  8. 8Arizona1 in 7,143

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.

Nayla around the world

Where Nayla 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
    #816
    in 2025
  • France
    1976–2025
    #167
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2001–2024
    #670
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2008–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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

Notable people named Nayla

People whose public names include Nayla, 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.

Nayla by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,078
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 215
Best rank ever
#1,078
2025
Peak year
2025
225 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,579
Count in 2025
225

Names similar to Nayla

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

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Names with a curve like Nayla

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

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Sibling names for Nayla

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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