girls:
4.6k births since 1971
#2500 (56th percentile)
overall:
4.6k births since 1971
#4014 (48th percentile)
The name Nailah is the #4,014 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,624 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 48.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 48.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,500 (56.3% percentile) for all time with 4,624 births since 1971.
Nailah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (first recorded for girls in 1971).
For girls, Nailah reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 25.9% percentile (ranked #712) with 138 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 138 births per million (ranked 25.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Nailah ranks #830 for girls (12.4% percentile) with 70 births per million, which is 50.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nailah".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Nailah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 67.6% confident that Nailah is pronounced as NAI-luh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is nai-EE-luh, at 17.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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