How popular is “Nylah” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Nylah” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Nylah” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Bias toward female
1992	5	0.000001302	5	100%
1995	14	0.000003823	14	100%
1996	24	0.00000658	24	100%
1997	24	0.000006619	24	100%
1998	46	0.000012506	46	100%
1999	36	0.000009746	36	100%
2000	66	0.000017461	66	100%
2001	78	0.000020837	78	100%
2002	133	0.000035578	133	100%
2003	115	0.000030245	115	100%
2004	162	0.000042398	162	100%
2005	215	0.000055919	215	100%
2006	207	0.000052323	207	100%
2007	227	0.000056783	227	100%
2008	348	0.000088535	348	100%
2009	456	0.000119366	456	100%
2010	486	0.000131503	486	100%
2011	652	0.00017825	652	100%
2012	703	0.000192215	703	100%
2013	734	0.000201335	734	100%
2014	743	0.000200465	743	100%
2015	722	0.000195087	722	100%
2016	804	0.000219151	804	100%
2017	719	0.000201052	719	100%
2018	758	0.000215592	758	100%
2019	869	0.000250365	869	100%
2020	775	0.000231996	775	100%
2021	788	0.000232589	788	100%
2022	734	0.000216959	734	100%
2023	805	0.000243115	805	100%
2024	693	0.000208202	693	100%

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