Nila

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Nila is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 122 births. Its best rank was 567th, in 1935.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 1220.01% of girls
Peak year: 2022144 births
Best rank: #567in 1935
Since 1890: 7,019people given the name

Babies named Nila, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

7,019 girls have been named Nila in the United States since 1890, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2022, with 144 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1955, and the 2010s alone account for 15%. It has spent 37 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Nila
1890s	59
1900s	96
1910s	347
1920s	713
1930s	944
1940s	854
1950s	833
1960s	377
1970s	200
1980s	174
1990s	219
2000s	554
2010s	1,062
2020s	587

In 2022, its biggest year

Nila was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2022 were Olivia, Emma, Charlotte, Amelia and Sophia. See all of 2022.

Names that rose and fell with Nila

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.