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Nylah

#504 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Nyla

Nylah has been given to 13,739 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #504 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 870 recorded.

Babies named Nylah, 2025

1 in 5,620

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nylah: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Nyla

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nylah means

Nylah is a variant of Nyla.

Origin, language, and formation

Nylah is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nyla.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13,739 girls were recorded with the name Nylah between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 870 in 2019; its best national rank was #363 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #403 in 2020 to #504 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #438 in 2015 to #504 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Nylah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 5,620
590 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 2,720
0.04% of girls
Rank, 2025
#504
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
3,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nylah 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 1002%
School of 5008%

Put another way: gather 3,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nylah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nylahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nylah was born before 2016 — so the typical Nylah is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
52.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
13,739
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 52.3% of all recorded uses (7,192).

Is Nylah 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
−53
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−101
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−66
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.82×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
67.8%
Peak was 2019 (870)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#363
2019

Spellings of Nylah

Nylah is not the most common spelling — Lyla is, with 9.7% against Nylah's 2.7%.

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 Nylah is used

Across 2016–2025, Nylah was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 637 girls, against 1 in 1,821 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in 25,000).

4157 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 637
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 840
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 952
  4. 4Maryland1 in 1,020
  5. 5Connecticut1 in 1,099
  6. 6Georgia1 in 1,099
  7. 7Mississippi1 in 1,099
  8. 8Alabama1 in 1,136

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.

Geographically, Nylah is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 54% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Nylah around the world

Where Nylah 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
    2002–2025
    #391
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2013–2025
    #324
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2017–2022
    #354
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2023–2024
    #631
    in 2024
  • France
    2009–2025
    #4,816
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #708
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2003–2013
    #536
    in 2013

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

Nylah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#504
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 101
Best rank ever
#363
2019
Peak year
2019
870 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
13,739
Count in 2025
590

Names similar to Nylah

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

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Names with a curve like Nylah

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

BrinleyGracelynAverieZariahAdelynnRaelynGracelynnCharleeLeightonBriellaJourneyPhoenix

Sibling names for Nylah

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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