Naileah

girls:

131 births since 2001

#5585 (2nd percentile)

overall:

131 births since 2001

#7608 (2nd percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Naileah is the #7,608 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 131 recorded births since 2001. This represents the 1.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,585 (2.3% percentile) for all time with 131 births since 2001.

Naileah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2001 (first recorded for girls in 2001). Birth data for Naileah is available in 16 out of the 23 years between 2001 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.

For girls, Naileah reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #927) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Naileah ranks #941 for girls (0.6% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 80.5% of its peak share of births.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Naileah".

2001 2023 20012023

Key Statistics

Total Births
131
Peak Births
14
Peak Year
2021
First Recorded
2001
Peak Percentile
1.0%
Current Percentile
0.6%
Peak Rank
#927
Current Rank
#941
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Naileah

Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Naileah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 38.9% confident that Naileah is pronounced as nai-LEE-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NAY-lee-uh, at 27.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.

nai-LEE-uh (3 syllables)
38.9% confidence
N AY0 L IY1 AH0
NAY-lee-uh (3 syllables)
27.8% confidence
N EY1 L IY0 AH0
NAI-lee-uh (3 syllables)
16.7% confidence
N AY1 L IY0 AH0
NAH-ee-lee-uh (4 syllables)
8.3% confidence
N AA1 IY0 L IY0 AH0
nai-EE-lee-uh (4 syllables)
8.3% confidence
N AY0 IY1 L IY0 AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like N AY0 L IY1 AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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