Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Naylah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Naylah” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Naylah” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Naylah” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Naylah” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Naylah” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Naylah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Naylah” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1996 5 0.000001371 5 100%
2001 6 0.000001603 6 100%
2002 6 0.000001605 6 100%
2003 12 0.000003156 12 100%
2004 12 0.000003141 12 100%
2005 10 0.000002601 10 100%
2006 17 0.000004297 17 100%
2007 14 0.000003502 14 100%
2008 14 0.000003562 14 100%
2009 21 0.000005497 21 100%
2010 26 0.000007035 26 100%
2011 28 0.000007655 28 100%
2012 35 0.00000957 35 100%
2013 33 0.000009052 33 100%
2014 32 0.000008634 32 100%
2015 32 0.000008647 32 100%
2016 49 0.000013356 49 100%
2017 39 0.000010905 39 100%
2018 43 0.00001223 43 100%
2019 37 0.00001066 37 100%
2020 27 0.000008082 27 100%
2021 37 0.000010921 37 100%
2022 39 0.000011528 39 100%
2023 32 0.000009664 32 100%
2024 28 0.000008412 28 100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Naylah:

  1. Nayirah
  2. Nayiri
  3. Nayisha
  4. Nayla
  5. Naylaa
  6. Naylah (this page)
  7. Naylan
  8. Naylani
  9. Naylanie
  10. Naylea
  11. Nayleah