Nailah

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Something

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Nailah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 99K(measured from records)
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 81K
  • JMJamaica≈1 in 242K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

3,374 people, 2020

Sources
251 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 81K (inferred from the name graph)

Malaysia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Something

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of Islamic Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nailah counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Nailah is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3,3741 in 99K3.4KNailah251
PH Philippines≈410 est.≈1 in 265K—Nailah14
MY Malaysia≈410 est.≈1 in 81K—Nailah11
GB United Kingdom≈170 est.≈1 in 391KlistedNailah68
EG Egypt≈120 est.≈1 in 844K—Nailah3
JM Jamaica≈12 est.≈1 in 242K—Nailah3
KW Kuwait≈10 est.≈1 in 296K—Nailah13

3,374 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Nailah is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Na'Ilah, 'Nailah, Na’Ilah, Nailah'

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 40 sources across 28 countries.

Official registers attesting Nailah
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.4K#5,173
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025110—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20209#5,173
GB United KingdomNISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present)2025——

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Nailah mean, and where does it come from?
Something Recorded by Dictionary of Islamic Names.
Is Nailah a male or female name?
Nailah is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Nailah have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.4 thousand people named Nailah, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nailah.
How common is the name Nailah?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,374 people named Nailah in 2020, about 1 in 99 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nailah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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