Nila

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Nila: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Nila: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #544, reached in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
30times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#544highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
1997	#3824
1999	#2770
2002	#4137
2003	#2436
2005	#3382
2006	#2781
2007	#3667
2008	#1914
2009	#3936
2010	#5707
2011	#2636
2012	#2215
2013	#1864
2014	#2058
2015	#1961
2016	#1834
2017	#1371
2018	#1586
2019	#1316
2020	#872
2021	#1039
2022	#746
2023	#865
2024	#837

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 25 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #638 among girls in Scotland, #736 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #837 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3795 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2021–2025
Highest recorded position: #544 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025 (recorded 2021–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #544 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Nila appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 25 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 413 births with the name.

Nila across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Nila's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3795 (1996)	#746 (2022)	#837 (2024)	25 of 29	413 (1996–2024)	49 (2022)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#883 (2021)	#544 (2025)	#544 (2025)	4 of 5	16 (2021–2025)	6 (2025)

Nila by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Nila in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	11	3 of 10	4
2000s	45	7 of 10	6
2010s	149	10 of 10	15
2020sbusiest	208	5 of 10	42

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 42 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Nila appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #544 in Republic of Ireland in 2025.

Nila's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#837	44	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#865	41	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#746	49	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1039	33	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#872	41	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1316	24	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1586	19	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1371	24	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1834	16	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1961	14	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2058	13	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1864	15	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2215	12	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2636	9	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3936	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1914	13	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2781	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3382	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2436	7	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2770	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3824	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#544	6	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#736	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#638	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 26 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #544, first reached in 2025.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 49 births, registered in England and Wales in 2022.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2021, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Nikos · #1850, 18y
Nilah · #3148, 14y
Nilan · #779, 10y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Andie · #541, 30y
Giovanna · #541, 29y
Luella · #547, 27y
Marlowe · #541, 23y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aanya · #544, 27y
Eleonora · #544, 28y
Ira · #544, 26y
Melek · #544, 29y

Nila was ranked #544 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2025. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Nila and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Nila without appearing here.

Nila moved ahead of

Cecilie Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2636 and #2636 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1864 and #5742.
Finn Compare
In 2012 they stood at #5707 and #4688 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1864 and #5742.
George Compare
In 2011 they stood at #5707 and #5707 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #2215 and #5876.
Gail Compare
In 2007 they stood at #3667 and #3667 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1914 and #5545.

Moved ahead of Nila

Frida Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2436 and #2727 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #3382 and #1934.
Harper Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2436 and #4373 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #3382 and #2682.
Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1371 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1586 and #1436.

Moved the opposite way to Nila

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nila went from #3795 to #837 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nila went from #3795 to #837 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nila went from #3795 to #837 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nila went from #3795 to #837 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Nila

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nila went from #3795 to #837 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nila went from #3795 to #837 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nila went from #3795 to #837 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nila went from #3795 to #837 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #544 in Republic of Ireland in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Nila

Nila at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Nila across 2 official records

Nila by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Nila across 2 official records

Nila by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Nila moved ahead of

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