girls:
5.4k births since 1979
#2271 (60th percentile)
overall:
5.4k births since 1979
#3704 (52nd percentile)
The name Nala is the #3,704 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,436 recorded births since 1979. This represents the 52.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 52.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,271 (60.3% percentile) for all time with 5,436 births since 1979.
Nala first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1979 (first recorded for girls in 1979). Birth data for Nala is available in 31 out of the 45 years between 1979 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, Nala reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 41.4% percentile (ranked #554) with 233 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 233 births per million (ranked 41.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2002, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Nala ranks #644 for girls (32.0% percentile) with 181 births per million, which is 77.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nala".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Nala is pronounced as NAH-luh, which has 2 syllables.
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