Nalah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- NAH-la
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #4,459 for girls
Nalah is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies) and 4,459th for girls in the US (31 babies).
What does Nalah mean?
Spelling of Nala; popularised by the lioness in The Lion King
Nala is Simba's friend and queen in Disney's The Lion King; in Hindu epic, Nala is a king famed for his love for Damayanti.
Meaning borrowed from Nala.
Is Nalah a girl's or a boy's name?
Nalah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK and 31 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Nalah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,935th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4 about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 38% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Nalah, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,630th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 13 girls.
Half of all the girls named Nalah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2018 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 101 girls in the UK were given Nalah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #436, up from #4,935 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Nalah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 7 | #3,388 |
| 2022 | 6 | #3,728 |
| 2021 | 10 | #2,658 |
| 2020 | 6 | #3,630 |
| 2019 | 13 | #2,157 |
| 2018 | 5 | #4,204 |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 5 | #4,290 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
How popular is Nalah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,459th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 31 about 1 in 52,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 44% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 31 girls in the US were named Nalah, making it the 4,459th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,277th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 78 girls. It first appears in the records in 1995.
2025 had fewer girls named Nalah than any year since 2010.
Half of all the girls named Nalah in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 408 girls in the US were given Nalah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #699, up from #4,459 for this spelling alone.
Nalah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,459 |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,293 |
| 2023 | 54 | #3,047 |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,469 |
| 2021 | 61 | #2,784 |
| 2020 | 78 | #2,277 |
| 2019 | 62 | #2,729 |
| 2018 | 69 | #2,532 |
| 2017 | 61 | #2,779 |
| 2016 | 69 | #2,560 |
| 2015 | 61 | #2,846 |
| 2014 | 44 | #3,547 |
| 2013 | 67 | #2,625 |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,039 |
| 2011 | 37 | #3,998 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,734 |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,481 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,796 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,671 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,282 |
| 2005 | 9 | #10,915 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,386 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,751 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,527 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,719 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,511 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,380 |
Names like Nalah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Nusaybah, Safa, Ayah, Zainab, Hafsa, Aaliyah, Ayra, Hiba, Izzah, Ruqayyah, Rahma, Sumayyah
Other spellings of Nalah
Names related to Nalah
Nylah, Naila, Nuala, Nayla, Nailah, Naylah, Naliyah, Nalayah
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Nalah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nalah, updated 20 October 2026.