Nilah
Nilah is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 30 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 300.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 201284 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1916
- 1,380people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,380 girls have been named Nilah in the United States since 1916, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2012, with 84 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2013, and the 2010s alone account for 51%.
By decade
In 2012, its biggest year
Nilah was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2012 were Sophia, Emma, Isabella, Olivia and Ava. See all of 2012.
Names that rose and fell with Nilah
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jayleenpeak 2011
- Kenleepeak 2015
- Lailahpeak 2010
- Taelynpeak 2010
- Rilynpeak 2012
- Breckynpeak 2012
- Presleepeak 2014
- Anistonpeak 2011
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.