Nayleah

#12,803 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Nayleah has been given to 156 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #12,803 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 29 recorded.

Babies named Nayleah, 2025

1 in 474,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Nayleah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,803
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nayleah 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nayleah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nayleahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nayleah was born before 2018 — so the typical Nayleah is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
53.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
156
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2010s — 53.8% of all recorded uses (84).

Is Nayleah 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
−1,952
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,011
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,145
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.70×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
24.1%
Peak was 2018 (29)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
59.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,739
2018

Spellings of Nayleah

Nayleah is not the most common spelling — Aleah is, with 16.0% against Nayleah's 0.15%.

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 Nayleah is used

Across 1910–2025, Nayleah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,286,077 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

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. Nayleah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nayleah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,803
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,011
Best rank ever
#4,739
2018
Peak year
2018
29 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
156
Count in 2025
7

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Sibling names for Nayleah

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