Nilayah
#8,721 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nilayah has been given to 56 babies in the U.S. since 2010. In 2025 it ranked #8,721 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Nilayah, 2025
1 in 276,000
Nilayah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Nilayah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 276,000
- 12 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 134,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #8,721
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 191,493 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nilayah sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nilayah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nilayahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nilayah was born before 2020 — so the typical Nilayah is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 66.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 56
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 66.1% of all recorded uses (37).
Is Nilayah 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,141
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,872
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.33×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (12)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.4% average annual change
Spellings of Nilayah
Nilayah is not the most common spelling — Alayah is, with 36.4% against Nilayah's 0.17%.
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.
Nilayah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nilayah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nilayah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.