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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Nilah

Recorded for girlsGen Z

2025 rank

#3,757

up +879 places

2025 births

40

up +10 births

All-time births

1,420

3% of them in 2025

More common than

92%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2012
84 births
Best rank
#2,259
in 2012
First recorded
1916
#4,274 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2006
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
50 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 201284#2,259Peak
  2. 201181#2,318
  3. 201479#2,343
  4. 201375#2,428
  5. 201571#2,546

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #2,259 in 2012 · peak births 84 in 2012

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Nilah has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.

The boys' series

No boys have been recorded with this name.

Stated, not plotted as zero — the split bar and the unisex badge are omitted rather than drawn empty.