Nayla
Nayla may refer to:Na'ila bint al-Furafisa, wife of third Rashidun caliph Uthman Nayla Al Khaja, Emirati film writer and director Nayla Chidiac, French-Lebanese author, essayist, and poet Nayla D.
- Arabic
Meaning & Origin of Nayla
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Nayla may refer to:Na'ila bint al-Furafisa, wife of third Rashidun caliph Uthman Nayla Al Khaja, Emirati film writer and director Nayla Chidiac, French-Lebanese author, essayist, and poet Nayla D.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Arabic
The Story of Nayla
Nayla first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1979, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2019: 184 births, good for #1,259 nationwide. About 40% of every Nayla on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. As of 2026, Nayla ranks #1,451 for baby girls with 151 births, gradually falling (-8%). All told, over 4K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Nayla
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About the name Nayla
Nayla is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1979 and has accumulated 4K births in the dataset. Nayla's peak popularity came in 2019 when it ranked #1,259. Use the chart and map above to compare Nayla's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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