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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Nilay

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#11,613

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

6

All-time births

240

3% of them in 2025

More common than

74%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2006
12 births
Best rank
#4,394
in 1981
First recorded
1974
#5,769 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2003
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
31 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 200612#6,786Peak
  2. 200311#6,593
  3. 200411#6,848
  4. 200911#7,561
  5. 201111#7,357

Rank over time

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

Best rank #4,394 in 1981 · peak births 12 in 2006

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 92% boys■ 8% girls

240 boys · 22 girls, all time

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 Nilay has ranked, decade by decade

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