Nakayla
#9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births
- Peak · girls
- 2004 · 118 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,825since 1988
Nakayla over time
Rank among girls' names. Nakayla has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #9,457 | 10 |
| 2024 | #9,556 | 10 |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 |
| 2020 | #6,629 | 17 |
| 2019 | #7,716 | 14 |
| 2018 | #5,454 | 23 |
| 2017 | #5,191 | 25 |
| 2016 | #4,632 | 30 |
| 2015 | #4,584 | 30 |
| 2014 | #4,657 | 30 |
| 2013 | #3,005 | 55 |
| 2012 | #2,935 | 58 |
| 2011 | #3,014 | 56 |
| 2010 | #2,427 | 77 |
| 2009 | #2,316 | 84 |
| 2008 | #2,032 | 102 |
| 2007 | #1,815 | 117 |
| 2006 | #2,165 | 89 |
| 2005 | #1,778 | 110 |
| 2004 | #1,643 | 118 |
| 2003 | #1,769 | 106 |
| 2002 | #1,934 | 91 |
| 2001 | #2,211 | 73 |
| 2000 | #1,827 | 94 |
| 1999 | #1,719 | 94 |
| 1998 | #2,066 | 71 |
| 1997 | #2,259 | 60 |
| 1996 | #2,901 | 41 |
| 1995 | #4,348 | 23 |
| 1994 | #4,687 | 21 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 |
| 1992 | #4,849 | 20 |
| 1991 | #6,253 | 14 |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 |
| 1989 | #7,449 | 10 |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Nakayla! It came in at #9,244, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1988–1990, when fewer than 11 girls a year got the name.
Where Nakayla is popular in 2004
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arkansas#504 · 1 in 2,408
- Maryland#698 · 1 in 4,085
- Michigan#799 · 1 in 5,360
- North Carolina#825 · 1 in 4,939
- Georgia#1,109 · 1 in 7,218
Best ever in a state: #447 in Mississippi, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Arkansas | #504 | 5 | 1 in 2,408 |
| Maryland | #698 | 6 | 1 in 4,085 |
| Michigan | #799 | 9 | 1 in 5,360 |
| North Carolina | #825 | 9 | 1 in 4,939 |
| Georgia | #1,109 | 7 | 1 in 7,218 |
| Florida | #1,128 | 10 | 1 in 8,201 |
| Illinois | #1,410 | 6 | 1 in 11,416 |
| New York | #1,676 | 7 | 1 in 13,858 |
| Texas | #1,949 | 9 | 1 in 17,698 |
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See more about Nakayla
- 99 spots since 2024 (#9,556 → #9,457)
- 2,828 spots since 2020 (#6,629 → #9,457)
- 4,873 spots since 2015 (#4,584 → #9,457)
- Debuted 1988
- Peaked 2004 at #1,643 (118 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 15,561 girls born in 2004 were named Nakayla (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 160,727 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 53.9% of all girls named Nakayla (984) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 17 | #7,449 (1989) | #8,347 |
| 1990s | 362 | #1,719 (1999) | #4,630 |
| 2000s | 984 | #1,643 (2004) | #1,949 |
| 2010s | 398 | #2,427 (2010) | #4,362 |
| 2020s | 64 | #6,629 (2020) | #9,586 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Nakayla in 2004
Top girls' names in 2004
More about 2004
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1,836,250 girls got a published name in 2004; 1 in 15,561 of them was named Nakayla, which outranked 91.3% of the 18,835 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,630Soleil119
- #1,630Yamileth119
- #1,630Yazmine119
- #1,643Nakayla118
- #1,643Aditi118
- #1,643Angelena118
- #1,643Azucena118
- #1,654Addisyn117
- #1,654Alaya117
- #1,654Alexsandra117
Tied with 10 names at #1,643; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.