Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Nilah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nilah” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Nilah” 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 “Nilah” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Nilah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nilah” 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
1916 6 0.000003102 6 100%
1918 7 0.000003224 7 100%
1919 6 0.000002843 6 100%
1920 5 0.00000221 5 100%
1921 7 0.000002998 7 100%
1922 6 0.000002621 6 100%
1924 7 0.000002939 7 100%
1925 5 0.000002143 5 100%
1926 5 0.000002178 5 100%
1927 7 0.000003018 7 100%
1928 6 0.000002654 6 100%
1929 7 0.000003193 7 100%
1933 11 0.000005502 11 100%
1934 5 0.000002408 5 100%
1935 5 0.000002392 5 100%
1936 6 0.000002888 6 100%
1937 7 0.000003285 7 100%
1938 5 0.00000226 5 100%
1939 5 0.000002269 5 100%
1944 7 0.000002602 7 100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 100%
1997 5 0.000001379 5 100%
1998 8 0.000002175 8 100%
1999 7 0.000001895 7 100%
2000 14 0.000003704 14 100%
2001 13 0.000003473 13 100%
2002 20 0.00000535 20 100%
2003 20 0.00000526 20 100%
2004 18 0.000004711 18 100%
2005 34 0.000008843 34 100%
2006 32 0.000008089 32 100%
2007 41 0.000010256 41 100%
2008 53 0.000013484 53 100%
2009 58 0.000015183 58 100%
2010 66 0.000017858 66 100%
2011 81 0.000022145 81 100%
2012 84 0.000022967 84 100%
2013 75 0.000020572 75 100%
2014 79 0.000021315 79 100%
2015 71 0.000019184 71 100%
2016 70 0.00001908 70 100%
2017 62 0.000017337 62 100%
2018 60 0.000017065 60 100%
2019 62 0.000017863 62 100%
2020 62 0.00001856 62 100%
2021 46 0.000013578 46 100%
2022 31 0.000009163 31 100%
2023 48 0.000014496 48 100%
2024 30 0.000009013 30 100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Nilah:

  1. Nikylah
  2. Nikyra
  3. Nikyta
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  5. Nila
  6. Nilah (this page)
  7. Nilaja
  8. Nilajah
  9. Nilam
  10. Nilan
  11. Nilani