Nylah

femaleStatistical record

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

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

4registrars recorded it
27times a registrar ranked it
24years from first to last
#287highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2002–2025

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2002	#4137
2005	#4798
2006	#2509
2007	#2410
2008	#2150
2009	#1287
2010	#988
2011	#789
2012	#975
2013	#616
2014	#486
2015	#428
2016	#495
2017	#362
2018	#370
2019	#358
2020	#320
2021	#287
2022	#316
2023	#326
2024	#395
2025	#391

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

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What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 22 of the 24 years from 2002 to 2025.

In 2024: #351 among girls in Scotland, #395 among girls in England and Wales, #631 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 2002–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2002
First recorded at #4137 among girls in England and Wales in 2002 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2002–2025
Highest recorded position: #287 among girls in England and Wales, in 2021 (recorded 2002–2025).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #391 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Nylah appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 22 years beginning in 2002, and has registered 1,692 births with the name.

Nylah across 3 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.

Nylah'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	#4137 (2002)	#287 (2021)	#391 (2025)	22 of 24	1,692 (2002–2025)	165 (2021)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#432 (2017)	#354 (2022)	#354 (2022)	2 of 6	7 (2017–2022)	4 (2022)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#856 (2023)	#631 (2024)	#631 (2024)	2 of 2	8 (2023–2024)	5 (2024)

Nylah 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 Nylah in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	57	6 of 10	10
2010s	836	10 of 10	84
2020sbusiest	799	6 of 10	133

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 133 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2016 and 2017, when recorded births rose by 41, from 88 to 129.

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

Nylah 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 4 regions, from 2002 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #287 in England and Wales in 2021.

Nylah'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
2025	England and Wales	female	#391	108	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	female	#395	109	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#326	136	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#316	139	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#287	165	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#320	142	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#358	123	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#370	122	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#362	129	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#495	88	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#428	103	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#486	87	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#616	66	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#975	37	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#789	47	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#988	34	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1287	23	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2150	11	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2410	9	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2509	8	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#354	4	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#432	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#631	5	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#351	9	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
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.

Where Nylah is officially recorded

4 official registrars have recorded Nylah, between 2002 and 2025, in 22 of those 24 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	2002–2025	22	#287 in 2021
Northern Ireland	2017–2022	2	#354 in 2022
Republic of Ireland	2023–2024	2	#631 in 2024
Scotland	2024	1	#351 in 2024

Nylah was ranked #287 in England and Wales · Girls in 2021. 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.

Ayra#283
Amy#285
Rosalie#285
Annabel#287
Faye#289
Nia#289
Syeda#289
Alaia#292

Nylah 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 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Nylah without appearing here.

Nylah moved ahead of

Finn
In 2009 they stood at #4798 and #3382 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #988 and #4688.
Lynette
In 2008 they stood at #2509 and #2509 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1287 and #4564.
Jeanette
In 2006 they stood at #4798 and #4798 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #2410 and #5201.
Pauline
In 2008 they stood at #2150 and #1718 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1287 and #3936.

Moved ahead of Nylah

Fiadh
In 2023 they stood at #326 and #404 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #395 and #374.

Moved the opposite way to Nylah

Abigail
Between 2002 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Nylah went from #4137 to #391 while Abigail went from #22 to #171.
Aimee
Between 2002 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Nylah went from #4137 to #391 while Aimee went from #65 to #1809.
Aisling
Between 2002 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Nylah went from #4137 to #391 while Aisling went from #513 to #1892.
Alex
Between 2002 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Nylah went from #4137 to #391 while Alex went from #233 to #2605.

Moved the same way as Nylah

Ada
Between 2002 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Nylah went from #4137 to #391 and Ada from #2301 to #40.
Alma
Between 2002 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Nylah went from #4137 to #391 and Alma from #2105 to #211.
Amelia
Between 2002 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Nylah went from #4137 to #391 and Amelia from #25 to #3.
Aoife
Between 2002 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Nylah went from #4137 to #391 and Aoife from #344 to #192.

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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 4 regions, from 2002 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #287 in England and Wales in 2021. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

Nylah across 3 official records

Nylah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Nylah appears in

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Nylah across 3 official records

Nylah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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